![]() The need to remind everyone who is in power. ![]() She also questioned the timing of the new edict, following an election in which more women and people of color were voted into the 38-member chamber in its history. ![]() Cynthia Mendes, an East Providence Democrat, countered that this year’s dress code is more specific than the chamber’s previous one, which simply required all persons on the Senate floor “be properly dressed.” “Sometimes you have to force respect.”īut Sen. “It’s not about disenfranchising anybody,” the businessman and farmer said to some applause. Gordon Rogers, a Republican from rural Foster, said he supported the attire rules even as he admitted it was difficult to trade in his beloved Chippewa boots for dress shoes and secondhand suits to enter the chamber. ![]() “A dress code and decorum are about respecting an institution that is 200-plus years old.” “It’s not about judging how anyone looks,” he said. Louis DiPalma, who chairs the rules committee that vetted the revised mandates, argued that the dress provision is broader than those in other state legislatures. ![]() The provision, a revision of a policy the chamber has had for decades, requires Senate members and staff dress in “proper and appropriate attire, such as blouses, dress slacks and collared shirts with accompanying jacket.”ĭemocratic Sen. ![]()
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