The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to clean up its act by gutting the “Fetterman Rule.” Senators passed a formal dress code, a move that reversed a recent decision of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to give a pass to slovenly Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman.
As the Tampa Free Press reported last week, Schumer upended the upper chamber’s unwritten rule on lawmakers’ attire by directing the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms to allow Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, to wear his trademark hoodie sweatshirts, gym shorts, and sneakers while conducting Senate business.
Fetterman has donned his athletic gear ever since he returned to his job shortly after a weeks-long bout with clinical depression, which affected him almost immediately upon taking office in January.
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That came after he suffered a stroke while campaigning in 2022, a partially debilitating event that hinders Fetterman’s speech.
Yet that ended Wednesday.
Per Daily Wire, the Senate adopted by unanimous consent — which means no senator objected to passing the measure through an expedited process — a policy put forward by Sens. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, and Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, that declares men must wear a “coat, tie, and slacks or other long pants” on the Senate floor.
Even Schumer went along.
“Though we’ve never had an official dress code,” he said in introducing the resolution, “the events over the past week have made us all feel as though formalizing one is the right path forward.”
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