Who is Jasmine Crockett, the Texas representative who blasted MTG in House hearing?
By
Annabella Rosciglione
May 17, 2024 12:53 pm
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), a freshman representative representing Dallas, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) got into a heated argument during the House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday night.
The chaos in the hearing, which was pushed back to allow some Republicans time to go to New York in support of former President Donald Trump during his criminal hush money trial, started when Greene asked about Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter. Merchan is presiding over Trump’s trial. Crockett said the question was irrelevant to the hearing, which prompted Greene to insult Crockett’s eyelashes.
“I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading,” Greene said.
Crockett later asked Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) for clarification regarding the rules on the House’s standard of decorum.
“I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling,” Crockett said. “If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
Crockett, who has quietly been making a name for herself as a Democratic agitator to counterbalance some of the more brash GOP personalities on the Oversight Committee, seemed to have burst onto the scene Thursday night, but she didn’t come from nowhere.
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