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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

Mike Johnson unwilling to condemn Cory Mills despite citing daughters as reason ‘we have to protect women’

House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to condemn a member of Congress under investigation for sexual misconduct and dating violence despite citing his daughters working on Capitol Hill as the reason for the need to protect women staffers.

Johnson was asked by The Independent about female staffers feeling it necessary to go to the media to detail stories of sexual misconduct by lawmakers, rather than report through the formal protocol.

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