They are fighting words
House Oversight Committee It turned into chaos on Tuesday after Rep. Nancy Mace, R.C., challenged Rep. Yasmine Crockett, D-Texas, to a fight.
“If you want to take it outside, we can do that,” Mayes said.
The fight broke out when Crockett said “Kid, listen” during a Back and forth about civil rights, Women's rights and transgender rights.
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Reps. Nancy Mace and Jasmine Crockett had a heated exchange about transgender and women's rights. (Fox News)
“Someone's campaign coffers are suffering right now. So you're going to keep saying 'trans, trans, trans' until people feel threatened. Listen up, kids,” Crockett said.
Mace exploded in anger.
“I'm not a kid! Don't call me a kid! I'm not a kid. Don't even start,” Mace said, interrupting Crockett. “I'm a grown woman. I'm 47 years old. I've broken more glass ceilings than ever… You won't do that. I'm not a child… If you want to take it outside, we can do that.”
The two talked to each other as well House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, The Kentucky Republican tried to control the chaos as he banged his gavel.
Members can be heard saying: “Request! Request! Request!”.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer tried to take control of the meeting. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Crockett later attacked Republicans, accusing them of persecuting “the most vulnerable in our country.”
She said, “Trans people aren't going anywhere. Just like when the racists wanted to make sure that black people would somehow be segregated in this country. We're not leaving either.”
Mace later I took to X To continue her war of words with Crockett.
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“I'm not a kid. If you want a physical fight, you know it. That's not how it was,” she wrote. “I will not be bullied by someone who wants to take away women's rights while lecturing about civil rights. I will not be bullied by someone who thinks the fear of rape is just a 'fiction'. This is not political, it is personal.”
Mace also attempted to clarify her comments in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“There was a lot of speculation about my intentions during a heated debate about women's rights earlier today at the moderation program,” she said in the statement. “Let me be clear: I wanted to raise the conversation off the ground to have a more constructive conversation, not to fight. At no time was there any intent to harm anyone. I was just assaulted by a professional man.” For a few weeks now, I am still receiving physical therapy for my injuries, and I know first-hand how the left is capable of inflicting real physical harm. I will not be bullied, nor will I be called names by my colleagues as I was today. I will not be belittled, or invalidated – especially as a rape survivor, I will always stand up for women and resist left-wing extremism that seeks to silence our voices and deny our rights.
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Crockett also took to X to address the exchange, writing in part: “Today, I filed an amendment to bring back the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Oversight Subcommittee. My Republican colleague He threatened to have a physical fight about it. It makes her heart happy.”
Crockett's office also responded to Mace, claiming that it was clear that Mace was threatening physical violence against Crockett.
“It was clear that Rep. Mace was threatening physical violence against Congresswoman Crockett as part of her ridiculous performative meltdown,” Crockett's office said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Her slander-filled book exemplifies exactly why the House Oversight Committee needs to pass Congresswoman Crockett's amendment to reinstate the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Congresswoman Crockett ignored her obvious desperate baiting — if Rep. Mace wanted to raise money from if she was a qualified black woman, she could Try someone else.”
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The furore between Mace and Crockett occurred on the same day the House passed a bill prohibiting it Transgender athletes from participating In women's sports at schools that receive federal funding.
Two Democrats in the House of Representatives They voted with Republicans to pass the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, were the only Democrats to vote for the bill when it passed by a vote of 218 to 206. Rep. Don Davis, D-North Carolina, voted “present.”
Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
