Maxine Waters Clashes With GOP Rep in Stunning House Floor Fight: ‘Don’t You Dare Talk to Me Like That’
“I am more offended as an African American woman than you will ever be.”
Rep. Maxine Waters responds to Rep. Mike Kelly’s words on discrimination during debate about repealing 2013 auto lending guidance. pic.twitter.com/t9YOwv4RJE
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) held nothing back earlier this week when she and a fellow representative had a fight over racial and gender discrimination on the House floor.
The squabble happened during a House Financial Services committee meeting where Republican congressmen successfully overturned a piece of Obama-era legislation prohibiting automobile dealers from engaging in discriminatory practices. At one point in the meeting, pro-Trump Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) chastised Waters by saying this:
“We’re trying to make America great every day and every way and the best way to do that is to stop talking about discrimination and start talking about the nation. We’re coming together as a people in spite of what you say.”
Waters didn’t appreciate the remark, and when it seemed like she was about to address chairman Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), she said, “Mr. Kelly, please don’t leave, because I want you to know that I am more offended as an African-American woman than you will ever be.”
When asked to yield her time, Waters responded “No, I will not yield. Don’t tell me we don’t understand, that’s the attitude given toward women time and time again.”
She added, “Don’t you dare talk to me like that and think that somehow women don’t understand what goes on on the floors of automobile dealers.”
McClintock eventually tried to regain control of the floor – though Waters admonished the chair for interrupting her, despite the fact Kelly was allowed to make his comments unimpeded.
“I don’t appreciate that you did not interrupt [Kelly] when he was making those outrageous remarks about him knowing more about discrimination than I know about discrimination.”
Watch above, via NBC News.
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