The committee concluded that the team's toxic work culture was a factor in the team's failure to win a title. There is a time limit.
More than three dozen former Washington Commanders employees demanded the removal of "sexualized and salacious photographs" of their former cheerleaders from congressional records.
The attorneys wrote a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, saying their clients were "humiliated and incensed by the GOP's reckless dissemination of these photographs."
Bruce Allen, the team's former general manager and team president, sent the photographs to the other men. Fifty-seven of the emails were distributed as part of a memo from Republicans.
Banks said that including these documents was outrageous. She said the photos were unnecessary and inappropriate.
The pictures are not part of the Congressional record according to a Republican aide. Republican staff received the memo. The media received the memo.
The aide said in a statement that the Republicans' memo was meant to show that more evidence should be considered.
The Committee staff took steps to make sure cheerleaders' identities were kept confidential prior to circulating the internal memo.
The outgoing committee chairperson was also sent a letter by the two men. The committee chair will be taken over by Comer.
According to a spokeswoman for the Democrats on the committee, the report exposed what is possible when those in power work to maintain a culture that glorifies sexual harassment. A body that protects women from sexual harassment and retaliation in the workplace should never distribute sexualized images of an individual without their permission. Committee Republicans should take steps to protect the privacy of the women pictured in their report.
The 57 emails and documents were released by the Republicans last week.
There was a toxic workplace under Allen's leadership and it has since been reformed based on independent third-party reviews of the team's culture. The committee Democrats did not identify or present any similar emails or documents that identified any racist, misogynistic, or homophobic behavior from the man.
Melanie Coburn, a former Washington cheerleader and marketing director, said that although two of the cheerleader photos were from a calendar, others were from pre- edits that were placed in binders meant to be presented to ownership.
Coburn said it was more about when Allen got access to the photos. Body paint is revealing if it isn't touched up.
Women are devastated again. They feel powerless, silenced and traumatized.
Coburn said the inclusion of these images was a "slap in the face" to legislation that would "guard against employer abuse of employee images and ensure that employees have a say in how and when their images are used for business purposes."
"These are our elected officials in the context of what purports to be an official document putting forward salacious sexualized images as part of their report to humiliate one particular individual with whom Dan Snyder has a dispute," Banks said.
The former cheerleaders' pictures caused additional and unnecessary pain according to the letter. Some of the women in the pictures were part of lewd videos that were made for the photographer.
"These photographs, which show women's breasts, buttocks and genital areas, were apparently disseminated to advance the narrative that Bruce Allen was responsible for the sexually hostile and misogynistic team culture," they wrote.
The photographs will never be used in such a way again.
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