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“This is not a partisan issue,” Jayapal said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press," adding that it was important to send a message to staffers on Capitol Hill that their bosses cannot treat them in the ways Swalwell and Gonzales were alleged to have done. “Men in power rely on the silence of the women they have abused,” Fernández, who is chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, said in a statement. “Both Reps. Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell believed it was acceptable to sexually abuse staff and still run for and serve in elected office. They clearly did not expect there would be any consequences for their actions.”