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Skip to main content Currently Reading Rep. Pramila Jayapal tests positive for coronavirus after blasting GOP lawmakers who refused to mask up in lockdown Teo Armus, The Washington Post Jan. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., tested positive for the coronavirus, she said late on Monday.Washington Post photo by Salwan Georges. WASHINGTON - After a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, forcing Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., to take shelter in a cro...

Washington, Jan. 12, 2021 Concerns are mounting about the health of lawmakers and other people in the Capitol last week, after the first member to test positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) since Wednesday’s chaos, said she believed she was exposed in a crowded hiding place with hundreds of other legislators. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., tested positive on Monday while experiencing mild symptoms, and said in a statement that she believes she caught the virus from her fellow lawmaker...

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4 members of Congress have tested positive for COVID-19 in the wake of the Capitol insurrection gpanetta@businessinsider.com (Grace Panetta) © REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst A unit of the DC National Guard outside the Capitol. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Four Democratic members of Congress have tested positive for COVID-19 since the Capitol insurrection last Wednesday. Lawmakers were forced to shelter together in a secure location for hours. Several Republican representatives were caught ...

The proposed fine comes after three Democratic lawmakers revealed they tested positive after sheltering with other lawmakers, including some who refused to wear masks, during last week's Capitol lockdown.

WASHINGTON—The leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said Tuesday that she has tested positive for COVID-19, and blamed Republicans who refused to wear masks in a secure room where lawmakers were kept during the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol last week. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, (D-Wash.), said those Republicans “mocked colleagues and staff” who offered…

Democrats have proposed a $1,000 a day fine on lawmakers who refuse to wear masks while in the Capitol complex after Rep. Brad Schneider became the third lawmaker to test positive for COVID .

“We’re done playing games. Either have some common sense and wear a damn mask or pay a fine. It’s not that complicated,” Dingell said in a statement. Watson Coleman, Jayapal and Schneider each received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 that’s being distributed to members of Congress. Pfizer has said the vaccine is only about 52 percent effective after the first dose, and becomes 95 percent effective after the second dose is administered three weeks later. Watson Coleman, ...

To heck with common decency. Rep. Andy Biggs acted like a jerk by refusing to wear a mask when hiding from the Trump mob that stormed the Capitol.

Share Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi opened debate last week on certifying Electoral College results. Erin Schaff/ The New York Times via AP Science panel Republicans more likely to oppose Biden victory Jan. 12, 2021 , 2:35 PM In the previous Congress, Republicans and Democrats on the science committee in the U.S. House of Representatives worked together to pass dozens of bills aimed at bolstering the U.S. research enterprise....