Chaos broke out last night during a late-night House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing with lawmakers hurling insults and yelling at one another.
📹 Seriously, just watch this clip. I’m not overstating it.
OK, I’ll start from the beginning: The House Oversight Committee had a meeting scheduled for Thursday morning to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. A group of Republicans wanted to attend former President Trump’s trial in New York, however, so they pushed the meeting until 8 p.m.
The comment that started it all: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) asked if any Democrats on the panel employ the daughter of the judge in Trump’s hush money trial.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) responded: “Please tell me what that has to do with Merrick Garland,” Crockett asked, later adding, “do you know what we’re here for?”
Greene shot back: “I don’t think you know what you’re here for. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.” This comment is really what started the chaos.
Democrats were furious about that comment: Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the committee, said, “that’s beneath even you, Ms. Greene.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called it “absolutely unacceptable” and yelled, “how dare you attack the physical appearance of another person?”
So, then Ocasio-Cortez and Greene went at it: “Are your feelings hurt?” Greene asked. “Oh girl, oh baby girl, don’t even play,” Ocasio-Cortez shot back. Greene agreed to strike her words, but Ocasio-Cortez demanded she apologize.
I keep seeing this Crockett quote on my social media feeds: “I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde bad built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
📹 Watch that clip — and Raskin’s reaction.
So, then Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) jumped in: She and Crockett went back and forth for a bit.
These are just a few of the highlights of the mayhem. I suggest you read Mychael Schnell’s reporting on this wild, chaotic, late-night hearing. It ended with a vote just after 11 p.m.
If you’re wondering how the vote went: Two House committees voted to hold Garland in contempt.
Goooood times in the House. I think we could all use a weekend, huh?