Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) got into a heated exchange on the Senate floor over mask-wearing, with the Democrat urging the Republican to wear a mask while speaking, and the latter retorting that he doesn’t “need your instruction.”
In a clip Brown shared on Twitter that has been viewed over 2 million times, Sullivan, who was presiding over the Senate, acknowledged the Ohio Democrat’s turn to speak, at which point Brown said: “I'd start by asking the presiding officer to please wear a mask as he speaks so people below him are—I can’t tell you what to do, but I know that the behavior...”