Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to ban from hearings and floor votes any colleague who tests positive for the CCP virus, a proposal that Republicans say is an effort to stall Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination.
“The U.S. Senate has become a COVID-19 hotspot and we need to take immediate action, guided by the best science, to put in place additional protections to safeguard the health of the Senate complex workers, Senate staff, and Senators,” Schumer said in an Oct. 7 statement.
