No More Senate Slobs

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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After John Fetterman (and a few of his colleagues) decided that shorts and a hoodie were just fine for the World's Greatest Deliberative Body, Bill, Steve and Scott tore into this idea and trashed it so thoroughly that two days after the episode was recorded (and the raw footage sent to 100 Senators), the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to institute a dress code. THIS is the power of your Right Angle team, made possible by the members at BillWhittle.com. You too can bend the arc of history by joining us by clicking here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0	Do you have casual Friday at your workplace?
0:09.0	Well, they do now at the U.S. Senate as well as casual Thursday, casual Wednesday, casual
0:15.0	Tuesday, Monday, and any other day that they happen to be in session.
0:18.0	Hi, I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, and this episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at billwittle.com.
0:24.7	And gentlemen, I'm sure you've heard by now, but the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
0:29.4	has instructed the sergeant at arms of the U.S. Senate to no longer enforce the Senate
0:34.6	dress code, which was technically business casual jackets and ties for men,
0:40.0	you know, skirts or slacks for women, and, you know, basically as a visual signal of the decorum
0:48.0	of the U.S. Senate, immediately, several senators took advantage of the new loosened rules.
0:55.0	And I want to get the phrase right here.
0:58.0	Kirsten Cinema was presiding at one point.
1:02.0	They rotate responsibilities for presiding while the Senate is in session.
1:06.0	And Kirsten Cinema was presiding over the Senate wearing a shirt, a T-shirt that read
1:10.0	Dangerous Creature,
1:11.6	a pink shirt with some lettering on it.
1:14.6	Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania showed up in kind of big sloppy basketball sweatshorts
1:23.6	kind of looking things when he presided over the U.S. Senate.
1:29.2	Now, Stephen Green, this is one of those OK Boomer moments, isn't it?
1:34.7	There are going to be young people who have...
1:37.3	No, no, I'm not saying you're doing that.
1:40.8	I'm just saying that young people are going to watch this episode, as they do in
1:44.8	countless droves, and they are going to see this and say, you know, you guys just grew up in a
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