over masking and other covid precautions. melanie zanona covers capitol hill. this debate is back up, new proposals on the table. a lot of concern about a spike in cases as lawmakers and staff return to washington this week and we ve already seen a number of cases increase. alexandria ocasio-cortez, john katko and ben klein have all recently announced they had positive covid diagnosis seize so congress is stepping up its health protocol providing k-95 matches instead of surgical masks and there s efforts to get rapid at-home tests available for offices and offices are being encouraged to telework as much as possible but the challenges for congress, john, as you know is that each office is its own sort of little fifedom and they are under no obligation to adhere to a lot of this guidance. they can set their own policies, and we ve seen a lot of republican lawmakers who have been really resistant to some of these rules including the masking, which is required on house floor but not req
chris, i wanted to go back for a plomoment to that point r allen was making. while war continues here in libya and there is chaos in yemen al qaeda in the yennd reason i asked ron where this state is taking place and where it is being established is because osama bin laden himself, his family, is from a region in southern yemen and it seemed incredibly important, ironic, significant that because a pro democracy movement has put yemen in paralysis, al qaeda is taking this opportunity to create its own little fifedom in the area where osama bin laden is from. it s one thing you and i have talked about this week, whether the unrest, not obviously just in libya but throughout the