Hoodie-loving John Fetterman MUST now wear a shirt and tie in the Senate: Joe Manchin’s resolution forcing formal dress passes unanimously
- Hours earlier, Fetterman had announced that he would wear a suit and tie during his speech or as president of the Senate
- Fetterman, like others, could still wear his signature attire and vote from the cloakroom at the edge of the Senate floor.
The major sartorial scandal over John Fetterman’s signature hoodie-and-shorts has now come to an end after the Senate unanimously passed a resolution issuing a formal dress code.
The resolution, put forward by fellow Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, W.Va., passed unanimously without a formal vote and clarified that the Senate floor would have a formal dress code.
Hours earlier, Fetterman had announced that he would wear a suit and tie during his speech or as president of the Senate. Fetterman, like others, could still wear his signature attire and vote from the cloakroom at the edge of the Senate floor.
“While we have never had an official dress code, the events of the past week have made us all feel that formalizing it is the right path forward,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor .
The major sartorial scandal over John Fetterman’s signature hoodie-and-shorts has now come to an end after the Senate unanimously passed a resolution issuing a formal dress code.
Fetterman, like others, could still wear his signature attire and vote from the cloakroom at the edge of the Senate floor
The resolution, put forward by fellow Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, W.Va., passed unanimously without a formal vote and clarified that the Senate floor would have a formal dress code.
Last week, Schumer had abolished the unofficial dress code, sparking outrage from conservatives and even some liberals.
“For 234 years, every senator who has had the honor of serving on this distinguished body has assumed that there were a set of basic written rules of decency, conduct and civility, including a dress code,” Manchin said.
But because the dress code didn’t really exist, Manchin and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, decided to write one.
Earlier this week, Fetterman called on his colleagues to be as excited about New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez’s bribery indictment as he is about his outfits.
“This week, I hope my colleagues will fully address Senator Menendez’s alleged systemic corruption with the same force and speed with which they raised concerns about our dress code,” Fetterman said in a statement Tuesday.