WASHINGTON (AP) - For years, Republican Rep. Mary Bono endured increasingly suggestive comments from a fellow lawmaker in the House of Representatives. But when the congressman approached her on the House floor and told her he'd been thinking about her in the shower, she'd had enough. She confronted the man, who she said still serves in Congress, telling him his comments were demeaning and wrong. And he backed off. Bono, who served 15 years before being defeated in 2012, is not alone. As reports pile up of harassment or worse by men in entertainment, business and the media, one current and three former female lawmakers tell The Associated Press that they, too, have been harassed or subjected to hostile sexual comments - by fellow members of Congress.

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Their stories, published Friday by The AP, renewed calls to tighten up Congress' own lax training and reporting requirements. House Speaker Paul Ryan sent a memo to fellow lawmakers encouraging them to complete sexual harassment training and mandate it for their staffs, telling them, 'Harassment has no place in this institution. We can and should lead by example.' The example set by male members of Congress has not always been admirable, as the accounts from the four female lawmakers who spoke with The AP make clear. The incidents they recounted occurred years or even decades ago, usually when the women were young newcomers to Congress.

They range from isolated comments at one hearing, to repeated unwanted come-ons, to lewd remarks and even groping on the House floor. Coming amid an intensifying national focus on sexual harassment and gender hostility in the workplace, the revelations underscore that no woman is immune, even at the highest reaches of government. 'This is about power,' said Democratic former California Sen. Barbara Boxer, after describing an incident at a hearing in the 1980s where a male colleague made a sexually suggestive comment about her from the dais, which was met with general laughter and an approving second from the committee chairman. 'That was an example of the way I think we were thought of, a lot of us. It's hostile and embarrasses, and therefore could take away a person's power,' she said.

Bono, Boxer and the other female lawmakers spoke on the record to tell their stories in the wake of revelations about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's serial attacks on women, as well as disclosures from current and former Capitol Hill staffers about harassment by lawmakers and aides. Largely untold before now is that some female lawmakers themselves say they have been harassed by male colleagues. While rare, the accounts raise troubling questions about the boys' club environment in Congress where male lawmakers can feel empowered to target not only staffers but even their own peers. The lawmakers declined to identify the perpetrators by name, but they said at least two of the men continue to serve in the House.

None of the female lawmakers interviewed reported what happened, and some noted it was not clear where they would lodge such a complaint. At least three of the four told friends or aides about the incidents, which in some cases were witnessed by other lawmakers.

'When I was a very new member of Congress in my early 30s, there was a more senior member who outright propositioned me, who was married, and despite trying to laugh it off and brush it aside it, would repeat. And I would avoid that member,' said Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif. She added that she would warn other new female members about the lawmaker in question, but she declined to identify him, while saying he remains in Congress. 'I just don't think it would be helpful' to call the lawmaker out by name, Sanchez said. 'The problem is, as a member there's no HR department you can go to, there's nobody you can turn to. Statistische Methoden Der Vwl Und Bwl Ebook Reader there. Computer Networks And Internets Douglas E. Comer Pdf.

Ultimately they're employed by their constituents.' Sanchez also said that a different male colleague repeatedly ogled her, and at one point touched her inappropriately on the House floor, while trying to make it appear accidental. She declined to identify the lawmaker but said he was no longer in Congress. Bono, who arrived in the House at age 36 to replace her husband Sonny Bono after he died in a skiing accident, said she ultimately confronted her colleague on the House floor after he'd made repeated harassing comments. She said it seemed like the lawmaker didn't know how to talk to a woman as an equal. 'Instead of being, 'How's the weather, how's your career, how's your bill,' it was, 'I thought about you while I was in the shower.' So it was a matter of saying to him, 'That's not cool, that's just not cool.'