“Isolation Boxes” Proposed For Mask Refusing Reps

Yahoo News reports:

The fourth-ranking House Democrat, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (Mass.), urged the sergeant-at-arms on Tuesday to force lawmakers who defy the chamber’s mask mandate to cast votes from enclosures in the gallery above to limit potential spread of COVID-19.

Clark said it’s clear that existing fines are not enough to deter certain lawmakers from repeatedly flouting rules requiring everyone to wear masks in the House chamber.

She suggested using plexiglass enclosures in the gallery overlooking the House chamber, which were installed last year so that lawmakers subject to quarantine could still cast votes when proxy voting was temporarily unavailable.

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The House sergeant-at-arms says some maskless lawmakers & staff ignore him even if he tells them personally to abide by the mask rules.

A member of House Dem leadership has an idea: Force maskless lawmakers to vote from “isolation boxes” instead.https://t.co/d0glELTeC4

— Cristina Marcos (@cimarcos) January 11, 2022