U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, on Tuesday called for fining any member of Congress who refuses to wear a mask on the Capitol grounds $1,000 for each day he or she goes mask-less.
Dingell’s legislation comes after three members of the U.S. House have tested positive for COVID-19 following last week’s ‘armed’ riot by supporters of President Donald Trump at the Capitol that forced lawmakers to be evacuated into one location.
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Many of the legislators who were on the House floor at the time of the deadly disturbance on Jan. 6 were held in a room together, including Dingell. She told the Free Press at the time that several legislators were not wearing masks despite the continued spread of COVID-19.
“It is not brave to refuse to wear a mask,” Dingell said. “It is selfish, stupid and shameful behavior that puts lives at risk.”
The legislation would amend House rules to fine any member of Congress who doesn’t wear a mask $1,000 a day until such time as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is safe not to wear a mask. It would only apply on the Capitol grounds and it wasn’t immediately clear whether it would apply only in public areas or in members’ offices when they were alone or socially distanced from staff.
“Days ago, a colleague of ours died from this virus and left behind a beautiful young family to mourn his loss,” Dingell said. “Still, in the midst of a deadly assault on our United States Capitol, a number of our Republican colleagues laughed off rules designed to keep not just their colleagues safe but to protect the lives of the teams of workers keeping things going, law enforcement and staff throughout the Capitol.”
Dingell introduced the legislation along with Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md. Democratic U.S. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Brad Schneider of Illinois tested positive this week. While it’s not known for certain that the virus was spread while the legislators were being contained in one space for their safety during the riot, Congress’ attending physician, Dr. Brian Monahan, on Sunday said that during that period ” individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.”
In late December, a newly elected congressman, Luke Letlow, a Louisiana Republican, died from complications from COVID-19 before taking office. He was 41.
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More politically grown Dingleberries , thier first fruits of division, to be fed THE PEOPLE from the Democrat juicing garden of evil intentions, and created in the Wuihan wet market of Chinese best interests and edification,. More genetically re-engineered Democrat DNA redesigned to prevail over Making America Great Again, as if there was never a time our American greateness did not prevail over politicians and countires of bad intentions.
What she really wants is a Ling to go with her Dingell so she’ll be appropriately hyphenated. Debbie Dingell-Ling. What a typical CPUSA twit.
America’s most dangerous mental institution : Congress
No where else in the so-called free world, are such a bunch of evil hacks, in such a position of power.
Most of them should hide their faces as they slink back to the sewer.
IMO if i had the power,i’d make those masks they had on, SOLID METAL< welded to their heads.. ALA the one from french lore.
The members of congress that are saying they now test positive. did they have masks on during the lockdown? If they did, does this not prove that masks do not work?
Well Debbie, why is there a spike in the corona virus, when California is locked down and everyone is required to wear a mask. Secondly, Debbie, how did anyone of you Democrats test positive for covid, if they were wearing their masks? Oh, Debbie, you do not know “how to follow the science” do you?
The only science they follow, is SCIENCE FICTION!
I live in Michigan with the traitor Debbie Dingell. She is a racist to her own race. Her diversity kept good smart kids from college and let other races who got to college but fail. She a party woman. Doesn’t care about Michigan only the money in het purse. She needs fined for helping destroy Michigan. Another useless woman who give good women bad name.
Another people Control D-RAT ordering others around because she says so. Dingelberry , is my term for this stupid woman.
I want a Goofy mask.
She is indeed right, members of Congress should wear masks when important votes are taken so the ordinary people who elected them will not be able to recognize them and hold them accountability, this will be difficult to manage during a roll call vote when names are read aloud but I’m sure they will devise an alias to conceal the identity of the guilty!
It’s selfish to demand that others wear masks, especially after the CDC and WHO have declared that they do not prevent the spread of the flu virus. They have also publicly stated that daily mask-wearers are contracting the flu in far greater numbers than those who have never worn a mask.
HOW DARE You bring up facts.. Off to the gulag with you!
Anybody see the videos of Jayapal sitting in the Gallery with some staff and not wearing a mask?? It gets replayed quite a bit on TV. I remember seeing that one during the action and commenting to my wife that there is that Left wing moron from WA hypocritically not wearing a mask!
Mask wearing does NOTHING to filter out covid; nothing. Instead, it is an act of subservience to the socialist elitists now in control of America and other globalist everywhere.
This is training of We, the People, to eventually be willing to worship the master-class then the antichrist.
The virus is extremely tiny in comparison to the space between the fibers of a mask, thus the mask is absolutely worthless; a waste of cloth and of the money to buy one.
It has been so amusing lately watching these Congressmen giving a speech and constantly adjusting their masks – slipping down to their chins and lifting them back up, and slipping down again. What an absolute joke. I hope someone keeps a close eye on this woman to make sure she wears her mask properly and doesn’t fiddle with it. Masks are basically useless anyway. These people rule over us?