During a hearing of the House Oversight Committee today, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) got her head handed to her by freshman Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), and video of the confrontation is quickly going viral on social media.
The hearing was on government regulation, which Boebert to tell witness Sally Katzen, a law professor, “It may not be a $2.5 million home like yours, but that sounds like a lot of red tape to me.”
“Excuse me, I really take that as a personal [attack],” Katzen remarked. “My home!”
“Do you disagree that this was an overreach?” Boebert asked.
Katzen: “I disagree that you’re casting aspersions on me.”
When it was Crockett’s turn to question Katzen, she apologized for Boebert’s being a horse’s ass:
“This committee runs my pressure up,” Crockett began. “And I do come prepared to committee, and then there’s always somebody from this side that does something ridiculous that throws me all the way off. So, oh Jesus.”
“First of all, let me apologize because that was uncalled for,” she added. “So let me do what she would never do, which is to be an adult in this room or in this chamber.”
Crockett also noted that it was clear all Boebert wanted to do was “spew nonsense” about regulations.
