‘HOW DARE YOU!’ All Hell Breaks Loose in Committee Hearing as Marjorie Taylor Greene Brawls with AOC and Jasmine Crockett
The usually raucous House Oversight Committee managed to outdo itself on Thursday night, as members got personal with one another.
The committee met to discuss a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. That subpoena demanded he turn over the recorded deposition of President Joe Biden as questioned by former Special Counsel Robert Hur. Hur investigated Biden’s retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice president. Ultimately, the special counsel declined to prosecute Biden, stating that a jury would likely view him “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
During the hearing, trouble began when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) asked if any Democratic committee members employ the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. Merchan’s daughter works for a political consulting firm whose services Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) – who sits on the committee – has enlisted.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) asked Greene what relevance her question had. After some crosstalk, Greene commented about Crockett’s “fake eyelashes,” which ignited the tinderbox and prompted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to demand Chairman James Comer (R-KY) order Greene’s words be “taken down,” or expunged from the record:
GREENE: I’d like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Merchan’s daughter.
CROCKETT: Please tell me what that has to do with Merrick Garland.
GREENE: Oh, Goldman. That’s right. He’s advising. Ok.
CROCKETT: Do you know what we’re here for? Do you know we’re here–
[CROSSTALK]
GREENE: I think your fake eyelashes are messing up your–
COMER: Hold on! Hold on! Order.
[CROSSTALK]
COMER: We have a point of order. Mr. Lynch, state your point.
STEPHEN LYNCH: Mr. Chairman, I would just like to ask the parliamentarian if your conduct here in raising money in connection with this hearing is referable to the Ethics Committee within this hearing. There’s a motion in order to refer your conduct and your abuse–
COMER: That’s not a point of order.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Mr., I do have a point of order. And I would like to move to take down Ms. Greene’s words. That is absolutely unacceptable! How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person!
GREENE: Are your feelings hurt?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Move her words down!
GREENE: Aww.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Oh! Girl, baby, girl!
GREENE: Oh, really?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Don’t even play!
GREENE: Baby, girl? I don’t think so.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: We are gonna move and we are gonna take your words down.
Later, Crockett took a shot at Greene, disguised as a point of order about what constitutes a personal attack. At one point, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) entered the fray:
CROCKETT: Mr. Chair, point of order.
COMER: Ms. Crockett.
CROCKETT: I’m just curious. To better understand your ruling, if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleached blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?
COMER: A what now?
LUNA: Chairman, I make a motion to strike those words.
COMER: I don’t think that’s a parliament–
CROCKETT: I’m trying to find clarification on what qualifies–
COMER: I have no idea what you just said.
LUNA: We’re not gonna do this. Earlier, you guys–
[CACOPHONOUS CROSSTALK]
COMER: Order! Order!
CROCKETT: I’m trying to get clarification!
LUNA: Calm down. Calm down.
CROCKETT: No, no, no! Because this is what y’all do. So, I’m trying to get clarification because y’all wanna play games and you don’t want me to–
LUNA: I can’t hear you with your yelling.
CROCKETT: –and you don’t want to
LUNA: Calm down.
CROCKETT: No! Don’t tell me to calm down because y’all talk noise and then you can’t take it!
LUNA: You’re outta control.
CROCKETT: Because if I come and talk shit about her, y’all gonna have a problem!
Watch sheer chaos above via the House Oversight Committee.
