Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week after she reinstated a mask mandate on the House floor, regardless of vaccination status, amid the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus. "If you want to understand how power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, look no further than the other chamber in the United States Capitol," Cruz said on the Senate floor Thursday. PELOSI REMOVES MASK IN VIOLATION OF CAPITOL POLICE GUIDANCECruz asked, "Who the hell is she to be fining members of the House?" REP. CHIP ROY HITS BACK AT PELOSI MASK MANDATE ON 'AMERICA'S NEWSROOM': ‘THIS IS A LINE IN THE SAND’"Madam Speaker, you are not God," Cawthorn said on the House floor in opposition to the mandate. "I will not comply with Pelosi's anti-science mask mandates," Rep. Lauren Boebert, who was one of the lawmakers who walked to the Senate side, said.

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