Tensions boiled over Thursday in a Congressional hearing when Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., got into a heated argument where Comer told Frost to “shut up.”
The argument occurred during questioning of Democrat governors over sanctuary state policies in a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing.
Rep. Frost asked to subpoena U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over actions related to removing Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., from a press conference in California.
“DHS federal officers threw a U.S. Senator to the ground,” Frost said over shouts from Rep Greene. “Will you commit on the record to working to subpoena Kristi Noem because a U.S. Senator was just detained and thrown to the ground in his own state?” Frost asked Rep. Comer.
Comer condemned Frost saying he was “out of order.”
Greene repeatedly condemned Frost and said “Democrats can’t follow the rules, can’t follow the law.”
“Mr. Frost you’re out of order,” Comer said before abruptly telling Frost to “just shut up” three times.
“He’s been out of order six times. He’s trying to get on MSNBC,” Comer said to Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. “You probably knocked somebody off [at] MSNBC to get on there.”
Greene then accused Frost of being a “former Antifa member.”
Frost asked for Greene’s comments to be stricken from the record. The committee suspended its hearing for two minutes after the argument.
