Rep. Raskin Says 'Worth Investigating' If House Lawmakers Were Drinking During Off-the-Rails Hearing

The ranking Democrat of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Jamie Raskin said it's "worth investigating" if some lawmakers were drinking during an off-the-rails hearing.

"I didn't see the drinking," Raskin said told reporters following the hearing on Thursday. But he noted that the issue was raised by Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), who reported that lawmakers were "drinking in the room," he added.

"That is something that is worth investigating if there was in fact drinking taking place," the Maryland lawmaker emphasized.

Stansbury complained during the hearing that "we have some members in the room who are drinking inside the hearing room ... who are not on this committee," Axios reported. She did not identify the drinkers.

The Oversight Committee hearing on whether or not to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over an investigative recording slipped its tether as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) went at it after Greene bizarrely mocked Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for wearing "fake eyelashes."

At one point Ocasio-Cortez sternly warned Greene: "Baby girl, don't even play."

Greene set off the donnybrook when she snidely attacked the daughter of the Manhattan judge hearing the hush-money trial against former President Donald Trump.

Greene asked if any Democrats on the panel were employing the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, implying that he is incapable of being unbaised in the case.

Crocket then 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 fired back.

"That is absolutely unacceptable," Ocasio-Cortez shouted. "How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person."

"Are your feelings hurt?" Greene replied. "Aww."

But Crockett later attacked Greene as a "bleach" blonde with a with a "bad built, butch body."

Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) tried to restore order and Raskin blasted Greene for the remarks that set off the dumpster fire.

Comer then asked Greene to take her words out of the hearing record, which she agreed to do.

But "I'm not apologizing," she added.

The dustup was just part of a free-for-hall hearing that had Democrats and Republicans shouting out and heckling one another.

Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) said the performance made Congress look "chaotic, stupid, childish and undignified."

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.