Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) specifically targeted drinking by Republicans who traveled to Donald Trump's trial for the chaos that unfolded earlier in the week at a Congressional committee meeting.
"There were members who skipped legislative votes ... to go to Donald Trump's trial. There was drinking going on in the hearing room. I can't even imagine what was going on in their train and up in New York City," Raskin told reporters.
The "majority has modeled extremely intermperate and rude conduct and behavior, and they really brought disgrace to the whole institution," he added.
"And these members came back out of control. And the chairman did not rein them in, and the institution pays the price," he added on the steps of the Capitol.
The hearing was held to consider a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to share audio from President Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
Democrats criticized the proposal, saying Republicans already have a transcript of the interview,
The Oversight Committee hearing dissolved into a verbal brawl 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."
Crockett appeared to fire her own insults at Greene in a hypothetical question to Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) about congressional protocol.
"I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling," Crockett asked. "If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blond, bad built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?"
The hearing was also interupted by hecklers and other members yelling out when they didn't have the floor.
Raskin also told reporters Friday that it would be "worth investigaing" drinking during the proceedings, and cited Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), who reported that lawmakers were "drinking in the room" during the hearing.
The panel eventually voted to advance the contempt charge against Garland.
