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Senate will no longer enforce a dress code for senators
Fox News ^ | September 17, 2023 | Pilar Arias , Chad Pergram

Posted on 09/17/2023 11:55:03 AM PDT by lowbridge

The United States Senate will no longer enforce a dress code for members of the upper house elected by those they serve.

"However, others entering the chamber must comply with the dress code. Coats/ties for men. Business attire for women," Chad Pergram, the Senior Congressional Correspondent for Fox News tweeted.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D.-New York, quietly sent the directive to the Senate's Sergeant at Arms, news website Axios reported. 

The change allows Sen. John Fetterman, D.-Penn., to continue wearing his trademark "hoodies and gym shorts" while working for Americans. 

Fetterman was previously praised for "turning heads" and "redefining fashion in the stuffy Senate" during his recovery following a six-week stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was treated for "clinical depression" and "fitted for hearing aids for hearing loss that had made it harder for him to communicate." 

The senator even found a "workaround" to the legislative body's dress code rules.

"He votes from the doorway of the Democratic cloakroom or the side entrance, making sure his ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ is recorded before ducking back out."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: chuckschumer; johnfetterman; newyork; pennsylvania; senate; slobs
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To: lowbridge

They also no longer must respectively refer to each other as “Senator” so-and-so, but can instead refer to each other as simply “Brah” or “Bruh” or “Yo, Bitch”.


121 posted on 09/17/2023 3:53:53 PM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: dinodino

His ‘Brand’ is more important than decorum and respect.


122 posted on 09/17/2023 4:04:28 PM PDT by drwoof
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To: lowbridge

Geez. All the hairy-chested, far left hos will be showin’ up naked. This is going to get ugly.


123 posted on 09/17/2023 4:21:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: lowbridge

What a disgrace.


124 posted on 09/17/2023 4:38:36 PM PDT by Tom in Seattle
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To: lowbridge

May as well wear sarapes and sombreros to keep their real constituents happy.


125 posted on 09/17/2023 4:39:16 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

>>I haven’t had to wear a tie at any job since I was 17, though, and I’d have to look up online how to tie one now. I think I own a tie, but damned if I know where it is.

I have a rack of them, mostly from the 70s and 80s. I last wore one to a wedding several years ago, and I did have to look up how to tie a half Windsor again.


126 posted on 09/17/2023 4:59:09 PM PDT by FarCenter (https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/aircraft-glitch-delays-canada-pm-trudeaus-departure-india-202)
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To: dragnet2

>>All that nastiness because I don’t like wearing ties around my neck?

Those who are so insistent about wearing ties, which are obviously totally useless, are undoubtedly the same ones who are so opposed to wearing masks, which may have some utility, no matter how small.


127 posted on 09/17/2023 5:04:57 PM PDT by FarCenter (https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/aircraft-glitch-delays-canada-pm-trudeaus-departure-india-202)
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To: Sirius Lee

I miss Dilbert in the Sunday papers.


128 posted on 09/17/2023 5:13:33 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: lowbridge

I hope the people living and dead in Pennsylvania who voted for this slob are real proud of who is representing them


129 posted on 09/17/2023 5:20:39 PM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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To: lowbridge

Everything socialists touch turns to shat.


130 posted on 09/17/2023 5:21:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: lowbridge

Fetterman leads the way.


131 posted on 09/17/2023 5:21:31 PM PDT by mware
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To: lowbridge

So if I win a Senate seat, I could honor my Scottish heritage and wear a Kilt with a bagpipe in the Senate? Just wondering...


132 posted on 09/17/2023 5:58:13 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: lowbridge
While I agree wholeheartedly that a change in dress code is needed, this is what it should be:


133 posted on 09/17/2023 7:40:58 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: lowbridge

They had Fetterman in mind.


134 posted on 09/17/2023 7:57:35 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: lowbridge

Senators won’t be dressing respectfully any more because Fetterman wants to wear a Hoodia? Ayfkm? Grow up John & put on a tie! 🙄


135 posted on 09/18/2023 9:01:18 AM PDT by redheadedshannon
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To: Mathews

Stop insulting Herman Munster :)


136 posted on 09/18/2023 6:23:31 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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