Rep. Mace Challenges Rep. Crockett To Take It Outside
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In a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, things got intense between two congresswomen colleagues.
Representative Nancy Mace from South Carolina had a fiery exchange between Representative Jasmine Crockett from Texas. The discussion got so heated that it ended in Mace asking Crockett if she wanted to “take it outside.”
This happened shortly after Crockett introduced an amendment to reinstate a subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties. The civil rights and liberties was disbanded during the 118th Congress. This is when Mace responded with a lengthy rebuttal in which she asserted that Crockett’s motion was “hypocritical” and detrimental to the rights of women.
The tense exchange was ran by committee Chair James Comer from Kentucky. Comer ultimately ruled that Mace’s remarks could mean “you could go outside and have a cup of coffee or have a cup of beer” and did not go against committee rules. A spokeswoman for Crockett stated that Mace’s remarks was clearly a threat of violence.
“It was clear that Rep. Mace was threatening physical violence against Congresswoman Crockett as part of her performative, ridiculous meltdown,” Chloe Kessock, who is the communications director for Crockett, said in a statement to the Washington Post. “Her slu-ridden screed exemplifies exactly who the House Oversight Committee needs to pass Congresswoman Crockett’s amendment to reinstate the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.”
In a response to the attention the dispute gained from social media, Mace posted on her X (formerly Twitter) stating: “I’m no child. And if I wanted to physically fight, you’d know it. That’s not what this was. I won’t be bullied by someone who wants to take away women’s rights while lecturing about civil rights.”
Crockett and Mace, both firebrands of the respective parties, have long feuded on social media and in the committee hearings since joining Congress.
Rep. Mace Challenges Rep. Crockett To Take It Outside was originally published on rnbphilly.com
