Biden asks the secretary of the Senate to direct a search for an alleged sexual harassment complaint filed by a former staffer

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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden requested that records relating to an alleged complaint filed by a former staffer be found and released from the Senate records.
Earlier today, Biden denied sexual assault allegations made against him by former staffer Tara Reade.
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden asked the secretary of the Senate to locate an alleged harassment complaint from a former staffer Tara Reade.

In a letter sent Friday to Secretary of the Senate Julie E. Adams, Biden requests "that you take or direct whatever steps are necessary to establish the location of the records of this Office, and once they have been located, to direct a search for the alleged complaint and to make public the results of this search."

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