The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday to make business attire a requirement on the Senate floor.
The moves comes after backlash to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) directive to scuttle the chamber’s informal dress code, which was widely viewed to be inspired by Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.).
The bipartisan resolution requires that business attire be worn on the floor of the Senate, “which for men shall include a coat, tie, and slacks or other long pants.”
The bill does not spell out what the attire includes for women.
See, even the Senate can’t function without basic regulations. Just because we used to have freedom and decorum for generations, what makes people think an entire society should continue to be free of restriction and regulation? If individuals operate outside the established norms of a community, legislation is adopted to codify those norms.
The Senate was nonfunctional because someone wore shorts? I’m no ancap but I don’t think that this fixed a problem, nonetheless the problem with the Senate.
There is a bigmad Trump supporter downvoting the thread, I’m guessing most of us have them blocked already.
Everyone point & laugh at the stupid fascist symp.
This is going to help avert a Government shutdown and put millions of people out of work!
Yes, let’s enforce a classist dress code to remind everyone how classist we are. That’ll fix everything.
It certainly makes it more likely for the rich to be able to go to the senate. Especially if you’re an especially big and tall guy like Fetterman who would have to get all of his suits tailor-made.
I’d laugh my ass off if Fetterman shows up next time in a jacket that barely reaches his elbows
Bonus points if some other Senator walks in looking like a Dick Tracy villain
Yeah it’s basically an attempt to be like the House of Lords in a country without nobility
Attempt? That was the original intent. They still wanted aristocracy, they just wanted it to be wealth based instead of hereditary.
You might not have a nobility but you’ve sure as shit got an aristocracy. Cabots, Lowells, Hearsts, Kennedys…
It’s… honestly sad that this is what makes the news
