After a divided vote in the Congress of and the United States, senators will be able to dress however they wantwithout need to wearing the suit and tie that used to be mandatory to participate in parliamentary debates.
The Democratic majority leader of the Upper House of Congress, Chuck Schumerreported that it is no longer necessary to apply an unwritten dress code, whose abolition was announced on Sunday. He further clarified that the senators they can dress however they want but he will continue wearing a suit.
The news was not well received by all congressmen. Some senators, especially Republicans, They came out to repudiate this change and they considered it an insult to decorum.
The republican Susan Collins She questioned the decision and jokingly said on NBC that she was planning to go to Congress in a “bikini.” “I think that There is a certain dignity that we should maintain in the Senateand eliminating the dress code, to me, degrades the institution,” he said.
From the same sector, the senator Bill Hagerty He noted in an interview with Fox Business: “The measure is one more step in the Democrats’ movement to transform America, to take us to a much less respectful place than we have been historically.
The also Republican Wyoming Cynthia Lummis regretted a decision that “dishonor” to a prestigious institution with the power to remove the president, confirm Supreme Court judges, and ratify international treaties.
“Out of respect, we should have a little decorum,” said the senator from Kansas Roger Marshall. Your colleague from North Dakota, Kevin Cramerdenounced an attempt to “convert the Senate of the United States in a sports bar.
Unlike his peers, the Democratic senator John Fetterman supported the decision and explained that it seems like a positive change, because gives “a little more freedom” in a chamber where the average age exceeds 65 yearsand estimates that “the right seems to be losing its mind” with the topic.
Both the House of Representatives and the Senate They relaxed the rules in recent years so that women can wear sleeveless dresses.
In 2019 The House gave the green light to religious headdresses to allow the Islamic veil worn by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Source: Ambito
