Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has stayed silent regarding the names of the now-infamous congressmen — who, as she wrote in her new book — have harassed her while in office. On Monday, the New York Times reported that one of those men was the late Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii).

Democratic Senator Dan Inouye may remove Al Franken's anti-rape amendment from the defense appropriations bill, because defense contractors are complaining it would leave them overly vulnerable. The vulnerability of actual rape victims: apparently not a concern.[Huffington Post]