McConnell knocks new dress code: Senators 'ought to dress up to go to work'

  (The Hill) : Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) knocked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) decision to loosen the Senate’s informal dress code by pledging that GOP senators will nevertheless keep dressing up for work.   “I think I’m pretty safe in saying most if not all Republican senators think we ought to dress up to go... ..

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