SUMMER FASHION: Republican Lawmaker Rebuked For Striding Onto House Floor In Hawaiian Shirt, Slippers
Wed Jul 25 2007 10:35:30 ET
Granted, it is summer, when dress codes tend to get a little looser in the face of Washington's starched-shirt- wilting heat. But a slipper-clad Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.) apparently took the summer casual look a little too far and he got a dressing down for, well, dressing down!
ROLL CALL reports: During a House vote at about 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Miller strode onto the floor wearing a look better suited to a backyard cookout than the House chamber: a loose-fitting Hawaiian shirt, linen pants and slippers.
The sartorial faux pas even prompted Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who was presiding over the chamber at the time, to weigh in: "The chair must remind Members that the proper standard of dress in the chamber is business attire, which includes both coat and tie for gentlemen."
But Lee, herself, has also gone summer casual on the House floor, staffers mock!
Perhaps if congressmen spent less time in buttoned collars and neckties, a litte more oxygen would get to their brains and they could make better decisions. Bring on the casual dress.
By the way, Sheila Jackson Lee, while visiting a NASA facility in her district which was controlling the Mars rover mission, asked the technicians if the rover would be able to travel to the sites where our astronauts landed.
She's not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
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