Marjorie Taylor Greene clashes with Ocasio-Cortez in chaotic hearing

as any other members seek recognition.

I'd say it recognizes Mr. Green.

I'd like to know

if any of the Democrats on this committee

are employing judge Martians.

Daughter.

Oh, please

tell me what that has to do

with Merrick Garland.

Is she a porn star?

Oh, Goldman. That's right.

He's advising. Okay.

There was an.

Do you.

Do you know we're here for.

You know we're here.

I want you know what you're here for.

Well, you don't want to talk about.

I think your fake eyelashes

are messing up.

Ain't nothing out of this

order, Mr.

Chairman.

Beneath even more,

you gave the order of your committee.

Order, please.

This is a point of order.

We have a point of order.

Mr. Lynch, state your point.

Mr.

Chairman,

I would just like to

ask the parliamentarian

if your conduct here in raising money

in connection with this hearing

is referable to the Ethics Committee.

Within this hearing

is a motion in order to refer

your conduct

and your abuse of.

It's not a point of order.

I do have a point of order

and I would like to move to

to take down Ms..

Greene's words.

That is absolutely unacceptable.

How dare you

suspend meetings of another person?

Are your feelings her words down?

Oh. Oh, girl. Baby girl.

Oh, really?

Don't even play, baby girl.

I don't.

We are going to move

and we're going to take your words down.

I second that motion.

Mr.

Green, do you wish to strike your words?

I have 4 minutes and 21 seconds to speak.

I think we have to do the motion first.

And then unless there's another motion,

then.

Then you'll be recognized again.

But I believe there's

another motion coming.

So you agree to strike your words?

Yeah. Okay.

Ms.. Green agrees to strike her words.

I believe.

I don't know.

Okay, hold on.

Then after Mr.

Page, you'll be recognized.

I'm not apologizing.

Okay. Reserve the right to your way.

I am not apologizing.

Let's go. Come on, guys.

Why don't you debate me?

Mr. Chairman.

The minority seldom ever.

You're not. Yeah, you're not.

You don't have enough

intelligent recognizes, Mr.

Perry. Okay.

Move to strike. Move!

Move!

This morning, ladies words again.

Ms..

GREENE, do you ask unanimous consent?

Do you agree to unanimous consent

to strike your words?

I repeat again for the second time.

Yes.

I'll use my words,

but I'm not apologizing

without objection,

So Miss Green asked unanimous consent

to strike her words.

Mr. Raskin objected.

I'm going to recognize Mr.

Raskin for his objection.

We're not counting against.

Mr.

Green has 4 minutes and 21 seconds left.

This will not count against your time.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I reserve the right to object

because the understanding of the minority

is that the general lady from Georgia

would move to take her words down

and strike her words, and to offer

sincere apology

for having engaged

in personalities against another member,

offending her personal appearance

and insulting her.

We don't do that in this committee.

And I think the major problem was that

we allowed pornography in this committee

and we've gone down a bad road.

But in any event,

we should not allow face to face

ad hominem insults.

It's totally contrary to the rules

of the House of Representatives.

And I would ask Ms..

GREENE

if she would just make the apology.

It's not that complicated.

We don't want to get into face

to face insults.

You will never get an apology out of me.

And

then I object.

Then I object. The Raskin's objects.

you know,

I think we don't want to see

a complete dissent

of our committee and the verbatim quote,

the verbatim

quote of the general lady was,

I think your fake eyelashes

were messing up your reading.

That is what she said.

I think you're fake.

And that that's obviously

engaging in personalities.

It's an ad hominem attack.

And I would just ask

every member

of this committee

in a fair minded way,

would you want to be talked to

in that way

about your personal appearance

by another member of the committee?

Because what we're doing

is we're setting standards going forward.

I'm just curious,

just to better understand your ruling.

If someone on this committee

then starts talking about somebodies

beliefs, blond, bad built, butch body

that would not be engaging

in personalities. Correct? What now?

Chairman?

I make

I make a motion to strike those words.

I don't think that's one part of it.

I find clarification on what quorum is.

You just said we're not going to

we're not going to do this

like you guys earlier.

Literally, you just voted to do it.

A person.

You voted you in order.

I'm trying to get clarification.

Look at calm down.

Calm down.

No, no, no, because this is what you do.

Proceed. I'm sorry.

You're not recognize Mr..

I hear you with your yelling.

Oh, right on down.

No, please don't tell me to calm down

because y'all have gone down in there.

You're out of control telling me

if I don't have a chairman.

Mr. Chairman.

Who wants to?

Who wants to take a crack at this?

I mean, these people are elected.

But this is good for the whole thing

we're talking about all day today.

But where where, how far have we come?

And like, why is this?

Why are these people even

except what this is like,

mean it's disgusting that

this is how they're behaving

and why are they attacking

each other personally?

They have enough to attack

each other on their views.

They don't need to attack each other

on their eyelashes and their hair. Here.

What's depressing about this is that it's

not that unusual

for the house these days.

I mean,

whether it was Kevin McCarthy's

many rounds to get elected

speaker, people

getting in each other's faces,

I mean, they almost

started hating each other during that.

And so it's not just these three women.

I've watched the men behave.

I'm calling each other names.

The house is in absolute chaos.

And we have been electing

a lot of clowns in this country.

And we are getting a circus.

I'm sure that it

has always been true there.

How clowns in the House

of Representatives.

There also used to be a career path

where you put your head down.

You did the work,

your mask, maxims in your head,

you built a staff,

you built a reputation,

you built partnerships,

and you passed laws,

which is what you were there to do.

And this is the

the comic and eye catching

side of

of the problem

with the Congress of the past few years,

which is they're remarkably unproductive.

And, you know,

when you think about problems

that Americans have from

the cost of nursing home

care to how to get health

insurance, to climate change, to

are the taxes too high

to the debates as we have

this all party consensus

that is building in favor

of more protectionism

and trying to enrich ourselves

by keeping out foreign goods,

that these are things

that you would think

that the House of Representatives

should be having a voice on.

But laws don't get passed.

This stuff happens

and so this

you can see and it gives you an

I mean,

it's important as a clue

to all the things that you don't see

because they are not happening.

One thing about this, too,

is that it does come down to leadership.

I mean, James Comer,

this was his committee

that devolved into this back and forth.

Here was how he tried to explain

what happened.

I don't know if you notice the

I have two hearing aids.

I'm very deaf.

I'm not understanding.

Everybody's yelling.

I'm doing the best I can.

Can we not recognize Miss GREENE

and we not because of the rules

of the committee, Mr. Chair,

I sort of wonder how he didn't hear

this piece of it, which

we're not going to

we're not going to do this.

Look, you guys earlier literally just

voted to do the first thing you voted to

in order

not trying to get clarification

and yelling, oh, why on down?

Please don't tell me to calm down,

because y'all have gone down in there.

You're out of control.

Back

with them.

Meghan

I mean, it's like a circus.

Like a circus that people are screaming.

I mean, I guess

Comer couldn't blame his wife

because he didn't think of that

excuse fast enough to solve this problem.

That seems to be

what are blame people for.

I just don't understand how this is like

acceptable behavior

from our lawmakers

who need to be passing laws.

People actually

have issues in this country

and we need to have actual laws.

You know,

one of

these is an interesting about voters

are we ask about Congress a lot

and it's funny,

they very much want results,

but they do not want compromise.

And voters in this country

seem to have lost the plot,

that it requires

compromise to get results,

which is, I think, where you now

see people reaching

for sort of the strongman

authoritarian types,

because they have forgotten

that actually the way

this body is supposed to function

is by doing the hard work,

putting their heads

down, reaching a compromise

that makes everybody

a little bit unhappy

and a little bit happy.

And ultimately you get something done

for the American people.

And so people want things done.

They don't want them to compromise.

They want them to be in opposition

like that.

And that's why

we have all this dysfunction.

Yeah, well, I mean,

and to what you were saying, David, to

when celebrity seems to be the goal

of coming to Congress,

you end up in situations like this. Well,

I'll tell you, because

it has

a sort of an example of this,

because, look,

Marjorie Taylor GREENE has no choice

but to be Marjorie Taylor.

GREENE That's just

there's no

upper floor of the building there.

But Ocasio-Cortez

has potential to go

in a number of different ways

in her career

and that the incentives are pulling her

toward the Instagram influencer.

The viral moment,

the no, the no big bills path.

I will say she

Ocasio-Cortez is not always like this

in committee hearings,

but she was jumping in defending someone,

and she actually was the one

who knew the rules of the committee

was using them to her.

And she's usually very prepared

for these hearings.

But I think continue. Okay.

So she actually has a path.

I mean, I think

we're also coping with this is

this is a Congress

that doesn't have a majority

in the House of Representatives. And

the inhibitions, what might happen

under a different political culture

is this

The speaker would put together

a working majority.

You know,

half of the his party,

a third of the other party,

and build a majority from the center out.

But that is completely prohibited

by the culture of the modern House

of Representatives.

That's how action

things are often done in the past,

especially in the fifties and sixties,

when Partizanship was more blurry,

you would have these dysfunction

in coalition

of the center of moderate Democrat,

usually with a Democratic speaker

in those days,

always with the Democratic speaker.

But putting some

of the Democratic members

out to the margins,

putting many of the Republican members

out to the margins.

But our political culture

doesn't allow that middle out

coalition anymore. It does not.