May 1, 2020
Julie E. Adams
Secretary of the Senate
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Secretary Adams,
I am writing to request your assistance in determining whether 27 years ago a staff member in my
United States Senate office filed a complaint alleging sexual harassment. According to public
reports, the staff member, Ms. Tara Reade, has stated that in 1993 she filed such a complaint with
the office responsible for enforcing Senate employees’ rights in the workplace.
We had understood that the Senate stores records from this office, and from this period, in the
National Archives. The Archives now states that the records would have remained under the
control of the Senate.
Accordingly, I request 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. I would ask that the public release include
not only a complaint if one exists, but any and all other documents in the records that relate to the
allegation.
Sincerely,

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.