If they don't know how to dress accordingly they shouldn't be congressmen in thefirst place. He can come back to the floor in a suit.
To preface my coming tirade, I don't mean to go off on you. You just hit one of my buzz-words and triggered an inevitable foam at the mouth moment for me. I'm so effing sick of "professional" bull. I find the entire concept detestable. It's an excuse to dismiss somebody we disagree with. There is absolutely no real need for acting "professional". Look at people like Steve Jobs who wear sneakers and jeans for the absolute most important of corporate events. Nobody dismisses what he had to say because of the way he effing dressed because we liked what he had to say. The whole concept is a made up excuse for looking down on people. I find it repulsive and lazy. There was absolutely nothing unprofessional with what he did. The fact that rules like how to dress are newsworthy is embarrassingly irrelevant. It's a way to detract from actual issues that we find uncomfortable. There was absolutely no harm done by his actions, it was a pointless clerical formality that has no purpose whatsoever.
