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.”
“He’s setting a new dress code,” Vermont Sen. Peter Welch joked to AP back in May.
“He was struggling. And now he’s a joyful person to be around.”
Fetterman faced some backlash against his casual dress code, even from his own staff, according to AP, who “had originally asked him to always wear suits, which he famously hates.”
Fox confirms that the Senate will no longer enforce a dress code for senators. Senators can now what ever they want. However, others entering the chamber must comply with the dress code. Coats/ties for men. Business attire for women
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 17, 2023
“Senators are able to choose what they wear on the Senate floor. I will continue to wear a suit,” Schumer said in a statement to Axios. The news website adds that Senate officials said the updated rule will go into effect this week.
The forgiveness for sloppiness, surely fits the person elected.
So yet, another instance where our lawmakers, bow down to the mentally deranged to make accommodations for them. Nice!
Well Kiss My Ass! Just what I’ve always wanted, a slouch contest in the House of the Senate. In Fetterman’s case Trash same for his wife. The Object of being in Office is to make a commitment to better Society, not to put a Notch in your career and enrich yourself. Or come up with some hair brained idea of how you think everyone should live to your likening every new leader every four years that’s not what that was designed for either.
Might as well have the homeless people come in and be seated in the various areas of our nation’s capital. Our government really has been degraded!