Congressional Democrats dodged questions on the Sunday morning shows about whether former President Bill Clinton should have resigned during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and after women came forward accusing him of sexual harassment and assault.

The U.S. political landscape has been awash in the recent outpouring of allegations against powerful men, ranging from disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein to Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore in Alabama to Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.). In addition, congresswomen have come forward to share their “#MeToo” stories of sexual harassment while noting that some sitting congressmen have been accused of harassment. Before too long, Clinton found himself back in the limelight as the country revisited the accusations he has faced with renewed scrutiny.

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But Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) made waves when she told The New York Times on Thursday that the “appropriate response” for Clinton would have been to step down as the scandal involving his affair with former intern Monica Lewinsky came to light and led to impeachment proceedings.

When NBC News anchor Andrea Mitchell asked Rep. Debbie Dingell (R-Mich.) Sunday on “Meet the Press” if Gillibrand was “wrong when she says that Bill Clinton should have resigned back during the Lewinsky scandal,” Dingell declined to jump on the Clinton-bashing bandwagon.

“I have 1,000 thoughts on all this,” Dingell replied. “I want to go forward because I don’t want to make sensational news.”

“But I think that we’ve got to focus on what the future is. Doing ‘got you’ questions to people like us isn’t going to solve the problem,” Dingell added. “And we’ve got to start moving forward.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also shied away from siding with Gillibrand on the matter during an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“I don’t think that at this point our goal is to look back 20 years or 30 years,” Sanders said. “Our goal is to go forward, and our goal is to understand that we have a real crisis in this country today within the political world, within the corporate world, within the media world, where women are being harassed every single day.”

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Sanders added: “The world has changed, and we have not caught up with that and obviously what has got to happen is women have been to be treated as equal citizens, have to be comfortable at work and have to be first-class citizens in this country, which is now not the case.”

Although neither Sanders nor Dingell took the opportunity to side with Gillibrand and condemn Clinton, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) — one of the congresswomen who introduced legislation last week that would overhaul Congress’ current system for reporting and handling sexual harassment allegations levied against members of Congress — Speier said that Clinton’s accusers “were not treated as they should have been.”

“I think that the victims who came forward were not treated as they should have been,” Speier said. “They should have been believed because, as I pointed out, most people who come forward are telling the truth.”

Juanita Broaddrick accused Clinton of raping her in a hotel room back in the 1970s, Kathleen Willey said Clinton groped her without her consent in the Oval Office in 1993, and Paula Jones accused him of sexually harassing her and exposing himself to her in 1991.

At the time the accusations were made, Clinton was given a pass by most Democrats and liberals, and some sought to discredit his accusers, with Clinton operative James Carville famously saying, “If you drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.”

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