Dozens of House Republicans and their staffers marched maskless out of the House to the Senate floor in protest of the new mask mandate for the lower chamber. Cawthorn told Fox News in a Thursday statement that the Republicans who left the House chamber to protest the mask mandate "took a firm stance on individual liberty." "The speaker of the House does not control the U.S. Capitol Police," Pelosi spokesperson Drew Hammill previously told Fox News. Capitol Police told Fox News in a Thursday email that "there is no reason it should ever come to someone being arrested." So far, there is no such mask mandate on the Senate side.

Source: Fox News July 29, 2021 22:26 UTC