House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is laying down the law: Wear your mask or shut up.
The powerful Democrat said Thursday that lawmakers will not be allowed to speak in the House of Representatives if they do not wear protective face masks.
“Masks will now be required at all times … without exception,” Pelosi said. “Recognition will be withdrawn if they remove the mask while speaking.”
Pelosi had already ordered mask use in Congress over the summer as the coronavirus pandemic spread. But some Republicans resisted the edict and repeatedly violated the rules, especially when they are speaking.
So far, the dispute has not spiraled out of control and no member has been ordered out of the chamber for failing to wear a mask.
Democrats say they are simply mandating common sense health precautions. But GOP members, many of them strong supporters of President Trump, accuse Democrats of seeking to score political points and “virtue-signaling” to liberal supporters.
A spat recently erupted in the usually genteel Senate when Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) demanded that Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Ala.) don a face covering while presiding over the chamber. Sullivan angrily rejected the request, adding that he didn’t need any health advice from a colleague.
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Nancy, how was your mask use, in the beauty shop in California? Oh, I forgot, you didn’t wear a mask, did you Nancy?
>“Masks will now be required at all times … without exception,”<
Unless it's Queen Nancy getting her hair done at a closed "beauty?" shop without wearing a mask.
OR any of a # of other commucrat double standard hacks..
Stand by, the democrat political gestapo will now enforce all of the Democrats rules, orders and demands. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Our Rights and Freedoms no longer are relevant. We are Wards of the Democrat Party State. 👿
They should design a special Speaker Of the Hpuse mask made out of duct tape. Her idea of free speech is when her speech writer propaganda expert doesn’t charge her for writing the takling point script. She would probably wear a mask in a democrat nudist colony, where speaking the naked truth is the only thing that gets masked.
Zeig heil.. Furher pelosi…
The rats need to be re-educated about Athens, Ga in 1946. The conservative people need to strap on their balls if they can find them in the bottom their foot lockers
Denying the PEOPLE their representation in government is the reason the colonies took up arms against the king of England. Time for the PEOPLE to take up arms against the queen of the house of representatives. ENOUGH NANCY!
THAT TIME has long since past imo.
A single covid virus is very very tiny compared to the relatively large holes between the fibers of a facemask. A chain link fence won’t stop mosquitoes and a mask won’t stop the virus.
And the large spaces and holes in her arguments won’t stop the truth from getting through, albeit too late to stop the sickening debilitation of our country’s strength and vitality.
If masks are so effective, why are the Covid numbers going up. Because they are being told to inflate the numbers. I’m 68 years old and I’ve had one hell of a tough life, and here I am still kicking, I WILL NOT LIVE MY LIFE IN FEAR.
they should wear one that says IMPEACH BIDEN
I’d LOVE TO see the gop get the balls to TRY.. BUT I DOUBT even a tenth of them have those nads.
Do what they asked of you months ago and “follow the science.” A covid virus is so small that thousands can pass, side by side, between the fibers in a mask. Thus, wearing a mask stops as many viruses as a chain link fence stops mosquitoes.
Also, social distancing should become socialist distancing, which is sending liberals far far away to leave America free and liberals happy in their socialist utopia.