Capitol Hill rocked by sex tape scandal featuring famous Senate hearing room --Hours after the graphic video was published, Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin's office announced a legislative aide was no longer employed by the Senate but did not address reports linking the aide to the video | 16 Dec 2023 | The United States Senate was rocked by a gay sex tape scandal after a video of two men engaged in an explicit sex act in a Senate hearing room appeared online. U.S. Capitol Police told Fox News they were aware of an amateur pornographic video published by the Daily Caller late Friday. The extremely graphic footage shows someone identified as a congressional staffer having sex with another man on the dais in hearing room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building... The Daily Caller reported that the video was leaked in a chat and was "shared in a private group for gay men in politics."