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A Republican lawmaker threatened Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) during a heated exchange on the House floor, asking the Democrat if she wanted to "take it outside."
During a House hearing on Tuesday (January 14), Crockett urged her colleagues to reestablish a subcommittee on civil rights and took aim at Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-S.C) rhetoric about transgender people.
“I can see that somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now. So [Mace] is gonna keep saying ‘trans, trans, trans, trans’ so that people will feel threatened, and child, listen —” Crockett said.
“I am no child, do not call me a child, I am no child,” Mace responded.
Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky) attempted to call for order before Mace challenged Crockett to "take it outside."
“If you want to take it outside, we can do that,” Mace told Crockett.
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla) came to Crockett's defense, saying Mace had incited violence against her. However, Comer ruled that Mace's remark wasn't a call to violence, arguing that the Republican lawmaker could've been asking Crockett to go outside for "a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer."
Following the incident, Mace defended her actions on social media, saying her remark didn't mean she wanted to fight the Democratic lawmaker.
“Let me be clear: I wanted to take the conversation off the floor to have a more constructive conversation, not to fight. At no point was there any intention of causing harm to anyone,” she tweeted.
In an X post, Crockett said she had been threatened and called Mace “an attention seeking loser.”
“Last I checked, threatening members in a committee room doesn’t exactly reduce the cost of eggs,” she wrote.
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