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Senators held a celebratory press conference after the upper chamber unanimously passed a bill to end forced arbitration in workplace sexual harassment cases.

One of the guests of honor at the press conference was Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News journalist who sued the network's former chairman, Roger Ailes, for sexual harassment.