{"id":460759,"date":"2021-04-28T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460759"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:50:23","slug":"rules-for-thee-biden-to-break-pelosis-mask-mandate-for-members-giving-floor-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rules-for-thee-biden-to-break-pelosis-mask-mandate-for-members-giving-floor-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules For Thee: Biden to Break Pelosi\u2019s Mask Mandate for Members Giving Floor Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frules-for-thee-biden-to-break-pelosis-mask-mandate-for-members-giving-floor-speeches%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2118.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden is set to defy Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s congressional mask mandate on Wednesday night as he plans to go maskless during his speech to a joint session of Congress on the House floor, according to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi (D., Calif.) enacted a rule late last year requiring members to wear masks at all times on the House floor, even while speaking to the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden is not bound by the rule because he is not a House member, his decision could be perceived as a direct snub against the policies instituted by his own party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Masks will now be required at all times in the hall of the House without exception,&#8221; Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pelosi-strengthens-mask-requirement-on-house-floor-2020-12\">announced<\/a> on Dec. 15, 2020. &#8220;Members will not be recognized unless they are wearing a mask and recognition will be withdrawn if they remove the mask while speaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden plans to remove his mask during his address, the White House told the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;White House aides said Mr. Biden will wear a mask when he walks into the chamber and remove it before he begins his remarks, as he has in speeches during the pandemic,&#8221; the <em>Journal<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Democratic congressional aide told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that Biden is not subject to the rules because he\u2019s not a member, and noted that former vice president Mike Pence &#8220;didn\u2019t wear a mask while speaking when he presided in the Chamber on January 6th,&#8221; even though the rule had gone into effect two days prior.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mask rule applies to Members of Congress only,&#8221; said the aide.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi has been firm about enforcing the mask requirement. In January, House Democrats imposed a $500 fine against members who violate the mandate, and a $2,500 fine against second offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard Harambe, associate professor of geriatric studies at the University of Alaska-Aleutian Islands and the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>\u2018s in-house public health expert, warned that Biden&#8217;s reckless behavior could endanger the lives of the elderly politicians in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Members of Congress are, generally speaking, among the oldest and unhealthiest members of society, and really shouldn&#8217;t\u00a0be allowed in public due to the\u00a0extreme risk of dying,&#8221; Harambe told the\u00a0<i>Free Beacon<\/i>. &#8220;Nancy Pelosi is 81 years old, for crying out loud. If she believed in science, and doesn&#8217;t want blood on her hands, she&#8217;d insist that even the President of the United States has to follow the rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note: Dr. Harambe has no actual medical license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is set to defy Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s congressional mask mandate on Wednesday night as he plans to go maskless during his speech to a joint session of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276925,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2118.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Rules For Thee: Biden to Break Pelosi\u2019s Mask Mandate for Members Giving Floor Speeches","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2118.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Rules For Thee: Biden to Break Pelosi\u2019s Mask Mandate for Members Giving Floor Speeches","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}