Joe Manchin: “let me thank Senator Schumer for working with us to come to this conclusion and bring all of us together. I appreciate…”

“let me thank Senator Schumer for working with us to come to this conclusion and bring all of us together. I appreciate it very much. I appreciate Senator McConnell for being a part of this and joining this bipartisan effort and, of course, my dear friend Senator Mitt Romney, who has been a part of all of these efforts that we have worked on together and in putting together this small token of our appreciation for what we have been able to do. I want to thank Senator Fetterman also. Senator Fetterman and I have had many conversations, and he has worked with me to find a solution. I appreciate that very much. It has truly been a team effort. You know, for 234 years, every Senator who has had the honor of serving in this distinguished body has assumed that there were some basic written rules of decorum and conduct and civility, one of which was a dress code. The presumed dress code was pretty simple. The male Senators were required to wear a coat, tie, and slacks or other long pants while on the floor of the Senate to show the respect that we had for our constituents back home. Just after a week ago, we learned that there were not, in fact, any written rules about the Senators as to what they could and could not wear on the floor. So Senator Romney and I got together, and we thought maybe it is time that we finally codified something that has been precedent, a rule, for 234 years.…”