A spokesperson for Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that 'no' the embattled senator would not resign over allegations that he fondled and kissed a woman without her permission 11 years ago.

'He is spending time with his family in Washington, D.C., and will be through the Thanksgiving holiday,' the aide told the newspaper. 'And he's doing a lot of reflecting.'

On Thursday, Franken became the latest high-profile man whose career is now in jeopardy over bad behavior with a woman.

Radio host Leeann Tweeden said in 2006, when performing alongside Franken at a traveling USO tour, the then-comedian grabbed her breasts without her permission when Tweeden was sleeping and kissed her against her will.

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A spokesperson for Sen. Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, said he would not resign and is spending Thanksgiving with his family in Washington, D.C., where he'll be doing 'a lot of reflecting'

Sen. Al Franken (left) groped the breasts of radio personality Leeann Tweeden (right), who wrote a first person account of her experience with Franken earlier this week

Sen. Al Franken (left) is seen in 2006 on a USO tour in which he kissed and groped Leeann Tweeden (right) against her will, she alleged

'I felt disgusted and violated,' she wrote on the website of her talk radio program.

Franken's initial statement noted that he did not remember the USO skit happening that way.

A second statement was more apologetic, as Franken that he would cooperate in a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into his behavior.

Tweeden, for her part, accepted Franken's apology and said she didn't wish for him to step down.

The Franken news came as the future of another Senate seat is in question, rocked by allegations against Republican nominee Roy Moore.

Numerous women have come forward and said Moore preyed on them as teenagers, with some victims saying he attempted to rape them or accused him or sexual assault.

Now, the Alabama Senate seat that was a shoe-in for a Republican candidate, could be in jeopardy with Democrat Doug Jones gaining ground.

At the same time on the Hill, Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California, has made sexual harassment on Capitol Hill one of her foremost agenda items.

On Face the Nation on Sunday, she warned that sexual harassment in Congress is the worse than it's ever been.

'It's worse in part because we have a system in place that allows for the harasser to go unchecked, doesn't pay for the settlement himself and is never identified,' she told CBS News' John Dickerson.

'The Office of Compliance, to which victims must apply or complain, is a place that has really been an enabler of sexual harassment for these many years because of the way it's constructed,' Speier said.