U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette said she believes it’s important to identify members of Congress who have engaged in sexual misconduct so they can’t continue their behavior, adding that lawmakers should be expelled from Congress when there’s credible evidence of harassment.

The Denver Democrat told MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Tuesday that Congress also needs “a much more robust reporting system” to investigate complaints about sexual harassment.

A day earlier, DeGette told “MTP Daily” host Katy Tur that former U.S. Rep. Bob Filner tried to kiss her forcibly in an elevator while they were serving in Congress together.

While she told her husband and an aide about the incident when it happened, DeGette said she didn’t file a complaint about the California Democrat, later nicknamed “Filthy Filner,” who resigned in 2013 as mayor of San Diego facing allegations he had sexually harassed and assaulted numerous women.

Filner eventually served 90 days of house arrest after pleading guilty in three cases – manhandling a woman at a fundraising event, kissing a woman without her consent at a “Meet the Mayor” event at city hall, and grabbing a woman’s buttocks at a city cleanup event, the Associated Press reported.

“You know, if I had said something at the time, maybe these other people wouldn’t have been victimized,” DeGette said Tuesday. “That’s why I just don’t think it cuts it to say, ‘There are people in Congress right now who are predators, but we’re not going to say who they are.’ That’s what we’ve been doing all along.”

Filner denied DeGette’s allegation in a statement read on the air by Hayes: “I don’t know where that comes from. We were friends. I didn’t do anything like that.”

DeGette shook her head and flashed a look of anger.

“It did happen. And this is what these men often say, if not always. What it really is, and the reason I think people need to name names,” she said,  is that professional women can often deal with unwanted advances – “I’m tough, it wasn’t that big of a deal at the time,” she said – but harassers are often also targeting more vulnerable women.

“What concerns me is if members of Congress are doing this to women who are subordinates, either junior staffers or interns,” DeGette said. “I think that we need a much more robust reporting system to find out exactly how extensive this is.”

DeGette’s appearance on the show took place the same day news about sexual harassment and misconduct allegations about Michigan Democrat John Conyers, the longest-serving member of Congress, had rocked the Capitol. DeGette said she hadn’t heard about charges against Conyers before they were made public Monday and Tuesday.

“If they find credible evidence that a member of Congress is engaging in sexual harassment, they should leave Congress,” she said, adding, “I think members of Congress should be held to a higher standard than anybody else. I think it’s really important to believe the women, and I think it’s important to preserve due process. That’s why we need strong ethics investigations in these situations, and we need a link between the administrative office that’s investigating these kinds of complaints and the ethics committee.”

Here’s DeGette’s segment on the Chris Hayes show, via the congresswoman’s Twitter post:

On @allinwithchris: discussing how #sexualharassment in Congress must be addressed with more transparency. pic.twitter.com/82QqYKFXX9

— Rep. Diana DeGette (@RepDianaDeGette) November 22, 2017