RUDY GIULIANI, PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s personal attorney, scans the room Wednesday during a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing on suspicion of voter fraud within the state at the House Office Building in Lansing. Giuliani was hospitalized Sunday with the coronavirus. (Mike Mulholland/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan House canceled its voting session scheduled for Tuesday after Rudy Giuliani tested positive for the coronavirus within days of testifying before lawmakers in Lansing without wearing a mask.

President Donald Trump’s personal attorney spoke for hours Wednesday before a Republican-led committee investigating claims of election irregularities. He pushed legislators to ignore the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote win over Trump and appoint electors, despite GOP legislative leaders having said they cannot do that under state law. U.S. Attorney General William Barr says no evidence of widespread fraud has been uncovered that could change the outcome.

“Multiple representatives have requested time to receive results from recent COVID-19 tests before returning to session, out of an abundance of caution,” House Speaker Lee Chatfield, a Levering Republican who met with Giuliani before the hearing, said in a statement Monday. “The CDC guidelines would not consider them close contacts with anyone, even if Mayor Giuliani had been positive, but they want to go above and beyond in the interest of public safety. With the recent spike in COVID cases nationwide, this makes sense.”

Chatfield, who was being tested, said several other House members needed to miss Tuesday’s session for non-virus reasons. Votes will be taken on Wednesday and Thursday in the second-to-last week of the two-year session.

Trump announced Sunday that Giuliani had tested positive. The 76-year-old former New York mayor, who also visited Arizona and Georgia last week, had some symptoms and was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

The health department in Ingham County, where Lansing is located, said several people who attended the Michigan committee meeting must quarantine at least through Saturday. Health officer Linda Vail said she consulted with the state health department and it agrees that “it is extremely likely that Giuliani was contagious during his testimony.”

Dozens of lawmakers attended the hearing, in addition to eight of the panel’s nine members. One, Democratic Rep. Darrin Camilleri of Wayne County’s Brownstown Township, tweeted that he saw at least five other GOP legislators in the crowd.

During his Michigan trip, Giuliani also met with state Republican Party Chairman Laura Cox. Neither wore masks while sitting with each other to virtually brief GOP activists.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said the “reckless” hearing was “unnecessary” and “didn’t change a thing.” She called it a potential super-spreader event because of the number of people not wearing masks in the room for more than four hours.

At least 10 lawmakers have been infected with the virus, which at times has led to the postponement of votes and meetings. An 11th legislator died from a suspected case in March.