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Lawmakers Opt Out of Biden's Congressional Address Over Attendance Policies

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During Joe Biden’s first 100 days, one of the most prevalent themes surrounding the 46th Commander in Chief has been access to the President…or, rather, the lack of access that many have had to the President.

Biden, who kept a rather scant campaign schedule during the run-up to the 2020 election, was largely seen then as protecting his image by restricting his speaking time.  This is a politician with a long history of damaging gaffes after all, and the media has never been afraid of looping these flubs to death during primetime.

Now, in a bit of a different accessibility issue, several lawmakers have suggested that they will not be attending Biden’s speech to Congress on Wednesday night on account of the lack of available seating.

Instead of 1,600 people crowded into a House chamber for a regular State of the Union address, just 200 people will be attending Biden’s first marquee event before Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday.

Some lawmakers have balked at the coronavirus restrictions and social distancing mandates put in place, especially since the 535 members of Congress have long had access to vaccinations.

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Senator Marco Rubio went off on what he saw as a nonsensical bit of caution.

“I will not be attending, and one of the reasons why is the ticket numbers have been really limited; they’re making people sit in the gallery,” Rubio told “Fox and Friends” Tuesday.

The Florida senator also called out inconsistencies with the enforcement of coronavirus restrictions at the Capitol, dubbing it “silly season.”

“It’s interesting — when it came to coming together to impeach Donald Trump for the second time after he was out of office, they put 100 senators in the same room sitting just inches apart for hours at a time over five or six days,” Rubio said. “Apparently COVID was not an issue then. But now, of course, for something like this we can’t have that many people in the room sitting next to each other. So it’s kind of silly season here.”

Biden is expected to ask for trillions of dollars from Congress during the speech, a large sum of that being a part of his highly controversial infrastructure package.

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As a lifelong advocate for the dream promised us in the Constitution, Andrew West has spent his years authoring lush prose editorial dirges regarding America's fall from grace and her path back to prosperity. When West isn't railing against the offensive whims of the mainstream media or the ideological cruelty that is so rampant in the US, he spends his time seeking adventurous new food and fermented beverages, with the occasional round of golf peppered in.




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