WASHINGTON – If the coronavirus threat is waning, as President Donald Trump suggests, you wouldn't know it by watching Congress.
The nation's representatives on Thursday chose overwhelmingly to wear masks at their first meeting in a month, creating the defining visual of a Congress in the throes of the historic pandemic.
There were exceptions — chiefly, a handful of Republicans who attended the session bare-faced. But to walk around Capitol Hill as lawmakers returned was to see evidence that the rampaging virus had delivered the saddest possible lessons to members of Congress in the weeks since they last met on March 27.