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.
Pass a budget. Nobody should be getting paid until then. The 20 republican extremists holding the entire country hostage should be fined exorbitantly every day they refuse to work with everyone to pass a budget.
Fuck stuff like dress codes. I could give less of a shit if everyone was naked, literally doesn’t matter vs getting the government properly funded.
The Senate isn’t the chamber holding up a budget bill…
It isn’t, but they should be entirely focused on talking to their colleagues and making damn sure that the government gets funded before time runs out. It’s extremely important we don’t let this one slide.
Please, the last thing the nation needs is Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz naked on TV.
Seems blatantly discriminatory on the basis of gender
Discrimination is the point of every dress code. They can’t have commoners walking freely through the House of Lords, or whatever these fuckheads want to call themselves this incarnation.
They should be hung from the roof upside down and naked. Instead we get to watch them bicker like children over the scraps of the government they’ve yet to destroy.
I’m so glad the country doesn’t have any actual problems that need to be addressed so the Senate can afford to spend time on nonsense like this.
If I was Fetterman, it’d now be my personal pet peeve to subvert this dress code whenever I could by showing up in the most ridiculous-but-formally-correct outfits.
Yellow ties, mustard green coat, orange slacks?
How about this beauty?
I love it, but it just doesn’t assault my eyes enough.
That is brilliant.
We could only hope Fetterman would be so based.
Dress like Saul Goodman or the Joker
Dress like Saul Goodman and the Joker
I’d go full Vinny Gambini on em’.
I wonder if Don Cherry’s tailor does Big and Tall…
Most of us Americans probably aren’t familiar with Don Cherry, I wasn’t until I lived with a Canadian and found hockey.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
Literally cannot pass a budget on time for decades though.
That would be House.
Edit: changed Congress to House.
The Senate is part of Congress, which also includes the House.
You are correct, I should have said that it is the House.
This directive seemed like a trap from Schumer which invited Republicans and conservative Democrats to show off how out-of-touch they are with millennials and Gen Z. Looks like they fell for it.
These people don’t know what the country needs and they don’t care. They spend their time and our money making it illegal for people to dress in a way that makes them unhappy. Absolutely fucking useless.
They don’t care about us at all and it shows.
Who cares what people are wearing?
You mean no more antler helmets?
The rules don’t specify “no antler helmets” and if Air Bud has taught me everything it is that if it isn’t banned it’s legal.
This is what’s important to these people. They don’t care about millions suffering every day, they don’t care about the climate going to shit, they don’t care about the economy. They’re up in arms because someone might not wear a full suit in their presence. These are your “representatives”.
Ah yes formal business attire, the universal dress code for those who accomplish nothing while looking very important. Very appropriate
Ya know gym shorts and a t-shirt besides being infinitely more practical and comfortable would lead to confusion with actual hard working Americans who don’t have the luxury of getting paid to do nothing.
resolutions don’t do anything do they?
Its the legal version of “we offer thoughts and prayers statement of the following…”
How much did this process cost in taxpayer money?
Gotta look profesh while they’re not doing their jobs. It’s like they’re in competition with that disaster of a House to see which chamber can be the most useless.
