The House of Representatives secretly paid $115,000 to settle three sexual harassment claims between 2008 and 2012, Representative Gregg Harper of Mississippi, the chairman of the House Administration Committee, said Tuesday.

The figure includes $85,000 paid in 2010 to settle claims brought by young men who said that Representative Eric J. Massa, Democrat of New York, had groped them, according to a person familiar with that settlement.

The figure brings to $199,000 the amount paid out of a fund controlled by Congress’s secretive Office of Compliance since 2008 to settle a total of four sexual harassment claims, under a confidential procedure that most lawmakers say they did not know existed until recently.

Mr. Harper released the new figures on Tuesday as part of an ongoing review by his committee, which is working on overhauling the way sexual harassment claims are handled in Congress.