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Should Congress change its handling of sexual misconduct accusations?

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with former California Rep. Jackie Speier about the accusations that five women, including a former staffer, have made against former Congressman Eric Swalwell, who resigned this week and dropped out of the California Governor’s race. Speier was involved in rewriting the way Congress handles sexual misconduct accusations.

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