3 GOP House Members Lose Appeal to Pelosi Over Mask Fines Despite Her Personal Hypocrisy
by Kyle Becker
about 3 hours ago
Three Republican House members lost their battle with Speaker Pelosi and will have to fork over $500 in fines for mask violations earlier this year. They lost their appeals challenging the fines on Tuesday.
U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ralph Norman of South Carolina failed to move the U.S. House Ethics Committee released statements to drop the fines, which were issued in May.
The Republicans challenged the fines in June, pointing to CDC guidance issued a week earlier that “fully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing.”
The fines will be imposed despite Speaker Pelosi flaunting her mask rules when outside the House floor, such as at a White House function she attended with other prominent Democrats in May.
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