‘Start wearing a mask’: Sen. Sherrod Brown chastises Sen. Rand Paul on Senate floor
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown once again called out his colleagues in the U.S. Senate on Thursday for not wearing face masks – this time a senator from a neighboring state.
During debate over a budget resolution, Brown briefly interrupted proceedings.
“… I would like to ask Senator Paul, in front of everybody, to start wearing a mask on the Senate floor like the entire staff does all the time,” said Brown, a Democrat from Cleveland. “I wish Senator Paul would show the respect to his colleagues to wear a mask when he’s on the Senate floor walking around and speaking.”
Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Bowling Green, didn’t respond to Brown’s request and returned to his seat.
Paul, who has tested positive for COVID-19, previously has said people who’ve already contracted the virus should “throw away their masks,” claiming that those people are immune from getting it a second time, the (Louisville) Courier-Journal reported.
Reinfection of COVID-19 is possible, though it’s rare, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
This isn’t the first time Brown has publicly reprimanded his fellow senators for not wearing masks in the Senate chamber.
In November, Brown implored Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan to wear a mask while speaking, warning that Sullivan could be exposing Senate staff to COVID-19.
That provoked some ire from other GOP senators over social media.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/start-wearing-mask-sen-sherrod-005953548.html
Well impose penalties on the members like the House did. You have the votes.
He’s an asshole. But that has always been the case. He deserves a bucket of shit dumped on his head!
He need some of those Putin panties
Love Thomas’s response. This man is horrible and worthless. I wish his disgusting state of Kentucky would stop sending its very worse people to our capitol to obstruct progress. They also need to stop being the worse welfare state. I assume Kentucky being so poor and McConnell and Paul continuing to keep jobs are linked.
Someone call his neighbor to beat his ass again
I just love these libertarians. They won’t wear masks because it abridges their rights but they will tell a woman she has to carry a child she does not want or can’t afford for 9 months. He is a cocky a…hole.
He is such a libertarian but will support Trump who has clearly demonstrated he wants to be a despot. I wonder where his liberties will be then. Again an a…hole. He is no libertarian he is just another ball less Republican who stands for nothing except his seat in Congress.
It’s consistent with the GOP being the party of suffering and death.
F U C K…r A N D..p A U L…A S S H O L E!!!!