Senate staffer loses job after allegedly having sex in hearing room

A Senate staffer accused of filming himself having sex in a congressional hearing room is threatening legal action after getting fired.

The explicit footage, published by the Daily Caller on Friday, shows two men having sex in what appears to be Hart 216, the judiciary room. Aidan Maese-Czeropski, a legislative aide for Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, was widely named on social media as one of the men in the footage.

Cardin’s office told Politico that “Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the US Senate”.

Capitol police said they were aware of the matter and were looking into it.

The room carries significant historical distinctions. It hosted the 9/11 commission hearings, and James Comey, the former FBI director, gave his testimony on Donald Trump there in 2017. The then Senate majority leader Tom Daschle received an anthrax-laced letter there in October 2001 just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the room saw supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina to attend nomination hearings for the nation’s highest court.