Democratic senator demands Rand Paul wear a mask on Senate floor

[JonLP24]

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Thursday demanded in front of the entire Senate that his colleague Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wear a mask in the chamber, where senators were massed for a long series of votes on the budget resolution.

When Paul stood up to ask that each vote be limited to 10 minutes, Brown objected and demanded that the libertarian-leaning Republican wear a mask in the chamber.

"I would like to ask Sen. Paul in front of everybody to start wearing a mask on the Senate floor like the entire staff does all the time," Brown said with a clear tone of exasperation in his voice.

Brown noted that Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), in the chair at the time, was wearing a mask, as was just about every other senator on the floor during a vote on an amendment sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on withholding funding from schools that do not reopen for in-person learning after teachers are vaccinated.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/537428-democratic-senator-demands-rand-paul-wear-a-mask-on-senate-floor?amp&__twitter_impression=true

[bamagal62]

1. Fine him.

[dchill]

2. Masks don't work!!!

You know, when you won't wear one.

[bullimiami]

3. start with real punishment for real asshole behavior. fines. strip committee assignments.

move his office to storage b.

[magicarpet]

4. Move his fucking office to Alaska....

Fine him $10,000.00 each and every time.

The chamber is shared space for senators, staff, senate chamber records employees.

People should have the assurance they do get infected themselves or bring the pandemic home to their families.

Grow up,... don't be self centered and selfish.

[crickets]

5. Good for Brown. Keep calling them out. nt