WASHINGTON, May 21, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Six House Republicans were fined $500 apiece this week for refusing to comply with Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s rule that non-speaking members must remain masked while inside the House of Representatives chamber, even though the majority of representatives are already vaccinated.
The New York Post reports that roughly a dozen went maskless during floor votes Tuesday, with a few “making a point to stand in the well of the House chamber to ensure that spectators, colleagues and the C-SPAN cameras could not miss them.” Seven received warning letters from the House Sergeant-at-Arms, with Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia making public displays of what they thought of it:
Just filed @SpeakerPelosi’s letter warning me to follow her mask rule. pic.twitter.com/KwKlbAV0Ml
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 19, 2021
This is what I think of Speaker Pelosi’s letter. #FreeYourFace pic.twitter.com/9uujzmtCCP
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ���� (@mtgreenee) May 19, 2021
Massie, Greene, Brian Mast of Florida, Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, Beth Van Duyne of Texas, and Ralph Norman of South Carolina were subsequently fined $500 each. 73% of House members have already taken a COVID-19 vaccine, including every Democrat; Miller-Meeks and
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