US senators can wear workout clothes to work under new rules

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 20, 2023 6:40 am

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Critics warn decorum is falling apart at the seams in the United States Senate after the Democratic leadership changed the rules to end the old requirement on wearing a jacket and tie in the tradition-bound chamber.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms that the chamber's unwritten dress code no longer needed to be enforced.

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