On March 4, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 357 to 65, with one member voting present and nine members not voting, on a motion to refer H. Res. 1100 to the House Committee on Ethics. The resolution was introduced by Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina.
H. Res. 1100 directed the House Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release records concerning the committee's reviews of alleged violations involving sexual harassment and related conduct by members of the House.
The House action did not itself release the records. Instead, the motion referred the resolution to the Ethics Committee. Contemporary reporting described the referral as effectively ending Mace's immediate effort to require public disclosure of the records.
The vote was bipartisan. According to the recorded tally, 175 Republicans and 182 Democrats voted for the motion to refer the resolution to the Ethics Committee. Thirty-eight Republicans and 27 Democrats voted against the referral.
The House Ethics Committee had argued that broad public disclosure of investigative materials could affect victims, witnesses, and ongoing or future investigations. Committee leaders said that releasing interim investigative materials, interview transcripts, and exhibits could discourage victims and witnesses from cooperating confidentially with the committee.
Mace argued that records concerning congressional sexual misconduct should be made available to the public. Her proposal included records concerning investigations of sexual harassment and related allegations involving members of Congress and congressional staff.
The vote therefore concerned the disposition of the proposed disclosure requirement rather than a vote establishing whether any particular allegation was substantiated. The House did not determine through the 357 to 65 vote whether individual allegations contained in the records were true or false.
The characterization that the 357 members voted to "hide their own sexual harassment cases" is not established by the vote itself. The recorded vote shows that those members voted to refer H. Res. 1100 to the Ethics Committee. The vote does not establish that each member who supported the referral had a sexual harassment case or other misconduct allegation in the committee's records.
The vote was recorded as House Roll Call 83 on March 4, 2026. The motion to refer passed by a margin of 292 votes.
