Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, made a commitment to taxpayers. Then, he announced his retirement.

After reports late last year revealed the congressman settled a former staffer’s sexual harassment complaint with taxpayer money, he said he would pay it back. On Dec. 4, Farenthold told a local outlet he was “going to hand a check over this week to probably Speaker Ryan or somebody and say, ‘Look, here’s the amount of my settlement. Give it back to the taxpayers. I want to be clear that I didn’t do anything wrong, but I also don’t want the taxpayers to be on the hook for this.”