A House committee meeting to consider a contempt of Congress charge against Attorney General Merrick Garland exploded into chaos Thursday night as lawmakers began trading personal barbs after Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crocket's eyelashes.
Soon Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greene were going at one another, with the New York Democrat warning Greene, "Baby Girl. Don't even play."
Greene sparked the congressional chaos when she brought up the name of the daughter of the Manhattan judge hearing the hush-money trial against former President Donald Trump.
"I'd like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge [Juan] Merchan's daughter," Greene asked during the meeting of the House Oversight Committee.
Crocket, a Texas Democrat, demanded what Merchan's daughter has to do with Garland.
"I don't think you know what you're here for ... I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading," Greene shot back.
As Committee Chair James Comer tried to restore order and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the panel, blasted Greene for the remarks, chaos ensued.
"That is absolutely unacceptable," Ocasio-Cortez shouted. "How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person."
"Are your feelings hurt?" Greene replied. "Aww."
"Oh, girl, baby girl, don't even play," Ocasio-Cortez hit back.
"Oh, really? Baby girl? I don't think so," Greene retorted.
Comer then asked Greene to take her words down, which she agreed to do.
"I'm not apologizing," she said, and then challenged AOC to debate her.
"I think it's pretty self-evident," Ocasio-Cortez responded.
"Yeah, you don't have enough intelligence," Greene said.
The panel eventually voted to advance the contempt charge against Garland for not releasing the audio recording of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur over classified documents found in Biden's Delaware home.
