An outside investigator found that a Nebraska lawmaker violated the Legislature's workforce sexual harassment policy by invoking a colleague's name while reading a graphic account of rape on the floor of the Legislature. The lawmaker, a Republican state senator, was issued a letter of reprimand by the Legislature's governing board.
The incident occurred during a debate on a bill related to school librarians and teachers providing 'obscene material' to students. The lawmaker in question repeatedly called out the name of a Democratic state senator while reading from a best-selling memoir, causing distress to the targeted lawmaker and others in the chamber.
