Former U.S. Senator from Oregon Bob Packwood resigned from the Senate in 1995 after ten women charged him with sexual harassment. That didn't stop Vice President Biden from glorifying Packwood as an example of a Republican who was good for women when speaking at a women's conference on Friday, saying:

It was Republicans who expanded access to the polls. It was Republicans in the Judiciary Committee that did motor voter. It's Republicans that were involved -- guys like Mac Mathias and Packwood and so many others. It wasn't Democrats alone. Republicans were the sponsors of raises in the minimum wage. I could go on and on. So I'm not joking -- this is not your father's Republican party or your mother's Republican party.

According to an account of the Packwood scandal in the New York Times, the Senator's harassment was not just verbal (which is bad enough); it was physical:

The Senator was no Don Juan. He didn't flirt suavely or invite women for candle-lit dinners. No, he swooped down out of the blue, usually embracing a woman under the fluorescent lights of an inner office. According to many accounts, his groping was wooden and his open-mouthed kisses oddly passionless. "I have no idea," one alleged victim says, "why this man thinks women are going to suddenly rip their clothes off.

(...) In 1969, Julie Williamson, a 29-year-old legal secretary in Packwood's Portland office, was on the phone when the Senator suddenly kissed her on the back of the neck. Williamson, who was married, recalls saying, "Don't you ever do that again." But later, when Williamson walked into a back office, Packwood followed her. According to Williamson, the Senator approached her and, without uttering a word, stood on her feet, pulled back her ponytail with one hand and tried to yank down her girdle with the other. Williamson escaped his grasp and fled the room. Stalking past her, he said, "If not today, some other day." Williamson, a longtime Packwood loyalist, resigned and found another job, taking a cut in pay.

Based on these and other accounts, it was no surprise when the Senate Ethics committee voted to unanimously recommend Packwood be expelled from the Senate for ethical misconduct.  He resigned before the entire Senate could agree with the committee's recommendation.