“When you dealt with this category, you said you were. You are referring, not a church boy and that you, quote, have so many skeletons in my closet. You described, “Ms Murray said, strongly asking if she had made sexual advances.
“No, I didn’t,” Mr Kennedy said. He added that the account had been eliminated, without providing information to substantiate its claim. Ms Murray asked why she had apologized. “I apologized for something else,” he replied.
(In the text, whose contents were mentioned by news organizations, including Times in July, Mr. Kennedy wrote: “I have no memory of this incident, but I sincerely apologize for anything I ever made you feel uncomfortable or uncomfortable Anything I did or said you are offending or hurting your feelings. “
Ms Murray pushed, asking Mr Kennedy if there were “other cases where you have made sexual advances to a person without his consent? Just yes or no.”
“No,” Mr. Kennedy replied.
In the answers he submitted on Friday, he did not clarify the type of settlement he had reached or the nature of the “abuse or inappropriate behavior” of which he was accused. In an email statement to the Times on Friday, Mrs Murray recalled the exchange for babysitter and said Mr Kennedy was “clearly inappropriate” to lead the Ministry of Health and Human Services.
“His answers to the Finance Committee are deeply alarming – the American people are worth answers and senators must have them before voting for their candidacy,” the statement said.