Conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) epically ripped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a House hearing on Thursday.
The House Oversight Committee hearing descended into chaos as the two began hurling insults. AOC demanded an apology after MTG mocked one of her colleagues.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) asked Greene:
“Do you know what we’re here for?”
Greene’s comment was an open question, asking Democrats whether they employ Loren Merchan, a Democratic consultant and daughter of Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the criminal trial against former President Donald Trump.
The committee was meeting to consider contempt of Congress charges against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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,” CNN reports, prompting AOC to come to Crockett’s defense.
“That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person,” AOC said, asking chair James Comer (R-KY) to strike Greene’s remarks from the record.
Greene said to Ocasio-Cortez: “Are your feelings hurt?”
Ocasio-Cortez responded, “Oh, girl. Baby girl. Don’t even play.”
“Baby girl? I don’t think so,” Greene retorted.
As the committee took a brief recess, AOC could be overheard telling colleagues Green’s “ego is bruised” and “she doesn’t want to say sorry to nobody for nothing. She is going to learn.”
The hearing restarted with Rep. Comer asking Greene if she would agree to strike her words, to which she said yes, but “I’m not apologizing” prompting AOC to make another motion to strike the remarks.
Greene shot back, “Why don’t you debate me?”
“I think it’s pretty self-evident,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Greene then said:
“Yeah, you don’t have enough intelligence,” prompting audible outrage in the room and a second request from AOC to strike the insult against her as well.
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AOC made a veiled shot at the Georgia lawmaker, saying on the House floor:
“Don’t tell me that this is about condemnation of anti-semitic remarks when you have a member of the Republican caucus who talked about Jewish space lasers, and an entire amount of tropes, and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body.”
Greene called the New York lawmaker out at the time for rebuffing multiple debate requests.
“I have repeatedly asked you to debate me, but you have been a coward and can’t even respond. But you go on
@CNN and lie about me. When are you going to be an adult and actually debate me on policy instead of run your mouth like a teenage girl?” she wrote on X last year.
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.@RepAOC I have repeatedly asked you to debate me, but you have been a coward and can’t even respond.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) February 3, 2023
But you go on @CNN and lie about me.
When are you going to be an adult and actually debate me on policy instead of run your mouth like a teenage girl? pic.twitter.com/XIl7LQNu9r
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