House votes 413-2 that harassment is unacceptable; four days later, two more officials face the same accusation.

…(cont) Then Thursday happened. The Labor Department's Inspector General released its own report, this one on Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who ran the department under President Trump until she resigned in April. The findings: a workplace staff described as "toxic, intimidating and humiliating," built in part on regular workday drinking and gifts she failed to properly disclose. Different building, different job title, and I was going to call this an unrelated personnel matter entirely — except five days is not a coincidence, it's a pattern that only took five days to repeat.

And it kept going. The same day the Chavez-DeRemer report landed, New Jersey's Lieutenant Governor, Dale Caldwell, was confirmed to be under investigation for alleged inappropriate behavior toward women — a probe opened by Gov. Sherrill's office and led by a former state attorney general, which is the kind of arrangement usually described as independent oversight. I was prepared to call that reassuring. It is not reassuring; it is the third instance of the same complaint landing in eleven days, and I've run out of buildings to blame it on one at a time.

Here is the actual scorecard: one censure vote, one inspector general's report, one state investigation opened, zero resignations forced by any of it so far. The system worked, in the narrow sense that paperwork got generated on schedule. Whether anyone above a staffer's pay grade faces a consequence beyond a letter to colleagues is, as always, a separate question — one none of these reports is actually built to answer, and one none of these offices seem in a hurry to ask.