Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) asked a Democratic colleague if she wanted to take an argument “outside” in a heated exchange on Tuesday.
During a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) asked her colleagues to reinstate a subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties. Republicans disbanded the panel, which focused on voting rights and criminal justice reform, in 2023, after the GOP won control of the House.
Mace responded to the proposal by saying Republicans shouldn’t take “advice from a group of people who can’t define what a woman is.”
Crockett later referenced those remarks with a pointed attack on Mace and her campaign to ban a transgender colleague from using public restrooms in the Capitol, as well as her support of anti-trans legislation.
“Somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now, so she’s gonna keep saying ‘trans, trans, trans’, so that people will feel threatened,” Crockett said. “And child, listen—”
“I am no child, do not call me a child,” Mace said, jumping in. “Don’t even start, I am a grown woman.”
Crockett and Mace repeatedly interrupted one another. In recordings of the hearing, amid the crosstalk, Mace can be heard saying, “If you want to take it outside, we can do that.”
The pair continued the spat on social media. Crockett called Mace an “attention seeking loser who clearly has some fundraising goals to hit… and to be clear that is the only thing that she will hit…”
Nancy Mace loves the “uneducated” as Trump calls them. Please explain to me how the same damn Karen that called Cap Police on a child who shook her hand wanted to act like she wanted to fight me?!
ME… the same person who has represented real killers in court.
She’s an…
— Jasmine Crockett (@JasmineForUS) January 15, 2025
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Mace went on to clarify her remarks, saying she hadn’t meant to threaten physical harm and had merely been asking to “take the conversation off the floor to have a more constructive” one.
“I will not be bullied into submission, I will not be called names by my colleagues like I was today, I will not be belittled, or invalidated ― especially as a rape survivor,” Mace wrote. “I will always stand up for women and push back against left-wing extremism that seeks to silence our voices and dismiss our rights.”