
Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde evading House fines, GOP colleague says
CNN
Rep. Andrew Clyde, the Georgia Republican who compared scenes from January 6 to a "tourist visit," has found a way to evade the House's mask and metal detector fines, according to one of his GOP colleagues.
Rep. Thomas Massie, who is suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the chamber's mask penalties, said Clyde changed his tax withholding in a way that makes it nearly impossible for the House to collect the thousands of dollars in fines Clyde has already racked up for evading the House's metal detector; he could also face fines for refusing to mask up on the House floor this week. Normally fines are taken out of a member's congressional salary, but Massie says Clyde, who owns a firearms business, "went to payroll and had his federal withholding raised to $11,284 a month. So he only gets $1 of pay."
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