{"id":350505,"date":"2026-07-23T22:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350505\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:55:11","slug":"florida-rep-kat-cammack-blasts-congress-culture-of-creepiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350505\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Rep. Kat Cammack Blasts Congress\u2019 \u2018Culture Of Creepiness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Florida Republican is speaking out against what she describes as the &#8220;culture of creepiness&#8221; in Congress,\u00a0urging members who are committed to\u00a0&#8220;enhancing their love life&#8221; to do so elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rep. <a data-ylk=\"slk:Kat Cammack;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/kat-cammack\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kat Cammack<\/a><a data-ylk=\"slk:spoke to MeidasTouch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/2080071026348904577?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to MeidasTouch<\/a> while on Capitol Hill\u00a0on Wednesday and did not hold back when asked\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:about the recent push;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/21\/congress\/speaker-backs-ban-on-members-dating-staff-01006175\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">about the recent push<\/a>\u00a0to ban members of Congress\u00a0from becoming romantically involved with House staffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Politics: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Jon Ossoff Slowly Pushes Hegseth Over The Edge By Using His Own Words Against Him;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/pete-hegseth-crashes-out-after-dem-uses-secretarys-own-words-about-iran-against-him_n_6a60c6cbe4b0fb869f7d771a?utm_campaign=yahoo-recirc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Ossoff Slowly Pushes Hegseth Over The Edge By Using His Own Words Against Him<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Listen, if you&#8217;re looking for love, I suggest you look elsewhere,&#8221; Cammack said.\u00a0&#8220;Maybe join &#8230; I don&#8217;t know, what are the apps these days? eHarmony? Match? Grindr? Tinder? Swipe right, swipe left? I&#8217;m not quite sure, but I think we&#8217;d be better off if members were more focused on their work than enhancing their love life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When asked if she&#8217;d personally heard about any reports of ****** misconduct among Congress members, she replied,\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to think of another way to say &#8216;F-yeah!&#8217; without using that word, but yeah, it&#8217;s a really big effing problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Like this article? Keep independent journalism alive. <a data-ylk=\"slk:Support HuffPost;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/support?utm_campaign=yahoo-rr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Support HuffPost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cammack&#8217;s remarks came in response to a new resolution <a data-ylk=\"slk:proposed by Rep. Jeff Crank;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5983783-jeff-crank-ban-staffer-dating-bill\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">proposed by Rep. Jeff Crank<\/a> (R-Colo.) that would uphold the existing ban on lawmakers from dating their staffers or staffers of a committee they serve on and also require House lawmakers to disclose such relationships to the House Ethics Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crank proposed the resolution just one day after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)\u00a0pledged <a data-ylk=\"slk:his support of a ban;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5980890-johnson-ban-lawmaker-staff-relationships\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">his support of a ban<\/a> on members having relationships with any Capitol Hill staffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In her chat <a data-ylk=\"slk:with MeidasTouch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/2080071026348904577?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">with MeidasTouch<\/a>,\u00a0Cammack commended Crank for doing a\u00a0&#8220;really good faith effort&#8221; for\u00a0&#8220;trying to jump in and solve this issue.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&quot;I wouldn't feel comfortable sending my daughter to work here on Capitol Hill,&quot;said Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fl.), seen here with President Donald Trump in February.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_huffington_post_584\/4cccab72b3f91a6dec7a3a4c789b819f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t feel comfortable sending my daughter to work here on Capitol Hill,&#8221;said Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fl.), seen here with President Donald Trump in February. Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Listen, I don&#8217;t want the government involved in people&#8217;s love lives, but what we have seen is, like I said, a culture of creepiness where you have members that are soliciting staff, they&#8217;re approaching staff, they&#8217;re putting them in very awkward situations, and that&#8217;s just wrong,&#8221; she added.\u00a0&#8220;And so, I wouldn&#8217;t feel comfortable sending my daughter to work here on Capitol Hill, and until I feel like that has changed, we&#8217;re gonna keep going to try to figure out ways to make Capitol Hill a safe place to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cammack and her husband, <a data-ylk=\"slk:Matthew Harrison;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/752145-kat-cammack-matthew-harrison-announce-birth-of-first-child\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Harrison<\/a>, are parents of a daughter,\u00a0Augusta,\u00a0who will turn 1 in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The representative previously made headlines when she recalled <a data-ylk=\"slk:nearly dying while having an ectopic pregnancy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/kat-cammack-ectopic-pregnancy-abortion_n_685ae364e4b05ba22caaec60\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">nearly dying while having an ectopic pregnancy<\/a> in 2024.\u00a0Health professionals on the left, she said, were reluctant to provide her with reproductive care <a data-ylk=\"slk:as they feared criminal prosecution;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/kat-cammack-ectopic-pregnancy-abortion_l_685acca5e4b05ba22caadca9\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">as they feared criminal prosecution<\/a> amid Florida&#8217;s six-week abortion ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Related&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Read the original on HuffPost;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/florida-gop-rep-blasts-congress-culture-of-creepiness_n_6a6279fee4b0811ae03f961b?utm_campaign=yahoo-recirc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read the original on HuffPost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida Republican is speaking out against what she describes as the &#8220;culture of creepiness&#8221; in Congress,\u00a0urging members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4303,5142,28,30,29,143421,8873,67100],"class_list":["post-350505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congress","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jeff-crank","tag-kat-cammack","tag-members-of-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}