Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) lost it in a House Oversign Committee hearing after a Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) repeatedly questioned an eco-leftist activist, Raya Salter.
The Daily Wire reports:
“In the four years that I’ve sat on this committee, I have never seen members of Congress, Republican or Democrat, disrespect a witness in the way that I have seen them disrespect you today,” AOC pontificated. “I do not care what party they are in. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
“And for the gentleman of Louisiana, and the comfort that he felt in yelling at you like that,” AOC claimed, “there’s more than one way to get a point across.”
“And, frankly, men who treat women like that in public, I fear how they treat them in private,” she concluded. “We can be better than this. We don’t have to resort to yelling.”
A review of the exchange between Higgins and Salter shows that Salter was louder toward Higgins than he was to her as he repeatedly tried to get her to answer the questions he was asking.
Rep @AOC (D-NY) goes after Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) for yelling at witness Raya Salter during a House Oversight hearing about the climate crisis:
"Men who treat women like that in public, I fear how they treat them in private. We can be better than this." pic.twitter.com/tZfTKoI29p
— The Recount (@therecount) September 15, 2022
Here's the heated exchange between Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Raya Salter, who is executive director of the Energy Justice Law and Policy Center.
Higgins makes several demeaning remarks toward Salter, calling her "boo" and "young lady." pic.twitter.com/1zFZUdwAc4
— The Recount (@therecount) September 15, 2022
