During a meeting of the House Oversight Committee, congresswomen Nancy Mace (Republican from South Carolina) and Jasmine Crockett (Democrat from Texas) had a heated discussion this Tuesday.
House Oversight Committee Fight
The discussion was intended to approve the rules for the House panel and introduce new members, but the problem started when Crockett accused Mace of trying to raise money for her campaign by banning transgender women from using women's facilities in the Capitol.
"I see that someone's campaign coffers are going through tough times," Crockett said about Mace. "That's why she will keep saying trans, trans, trans, so that people feel threatened."
“And girl, listen... This comment infuriated Nancy Mace: “I am not a girl! Don’t call me a girl!” the Republican responded. “I am not a girl. Don’t even think about it. I am an adult woman. I am 47 years old.”
Chairman of the House Oversight Committee says it was not a threat
Crockett kept talking even though Mace argued that she is not a girl, at that moment the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, bangs his gavel to stop the discussion.
Mace requested that the discussion continue in the hallway: “You won’t do it. I’m not a child. If you want to take it outside, we can do it,” shouted the Republican. Meanwhile, Representative Maxwell Alejandro Frost (Democrat from Florida) requested that Mace’s comment about “take it outside” be removed from the record.
However, Comer argued that he was not actually challenging her to a fight, but rather it could be to go for a walk or have a coffee: "What the lady said... could mean that we can go out and have a cup of coffee, or maybe a beer; we have a lot of outdoor conversations."
However, Crockett said in X that she felt Mace “threatened” her: “Today I introduced an amendment to reinstate the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. My Republican colleague threatened to physically fight me over that. God bless her.”