From the committee report appendix. Per the report, Edwards brought the two staffers with him from his state Senate office upon his election in 2022. “The former Chief of Staff opposed this arrangement, but Representative Edwards was ‘insistent,’” the report said. “When Representative Edwards messaged Staffer 1 to ask her preferred flowers, she responded ‘I’m okay without flowers thank you though!’” “Several staffers present testified that they felt uncomfortable, and Representative Edwards acknowledged in his own testimony that he could tell the staff felt uncomfortable.”