The Hill reports:
Nearly 40 maskless House Republican lawmakers walked across the Capitol and onto the Senate floor in protest of the Capitol physician’s decision to reinstate a mask mandate in the lower chamber but not in the upper chamber.
Republicans complained that the policy, backed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democrats, is inconsistent, infringes on personal liberty, and is based on politics, not science.
However, the body of the 100-member Senate is less than a quarter of the size of the 435-member House, and all but a handful of senators are vaccinated while dozens of House Republicans have refused to say whether they got the vaccine.
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House Republicans are protesting the mask mandate by walking to the Senate, where masks are not mandated by Capitol physician pic.twitter.com/sFD6AVnbr3
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) July 29, 2021
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) July 29, 2021
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) July 29, 2021
Chip Roy has found the only way he’ll ever get to the Senate. https://t.co/c5Y8IArRdS
— Joshua Israel (@jeisrael) July 29, 2021
SENATE FLOOR PROTEST:
On the floor:
Chip Roy
Paul Gosar
Madison Cawthorn
Matt Gaetz
Thomas Massie
Lauren Boebert
Marjorie Taylor Greene
+ others have taken seats on benches along the edge of the Senate floor.In the gallery (above the Chamber):
Byron Donalds
Andy Harris pic.twitter.com/gaZSIPqm2x— Nathaniel Reed (@ReedReports) July 29, 2021