Thursday 15 September 2022 09:17 PM AOC says she 'fears' how Rep Higgins treats women after heated altercation with ... trends now
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chastised Rep. Clay Higgins and suggested he mistreats women after he got into a heated altercation with a female committee witness.
The Democrat-led House Oversight Committee was listening to testimony at a hearing called 'Fueling the Climate Crisis: Examining Big Oil’s Prices, Profits, and Pledges.'
Ocasio-Cortez, made a scandalous apology to Raya Salter, founder of the Energy Justice Law and Policy Center, after a tense verbal back-and-forth with the Louisiana Republican.
AOC said: 'I just want you to know that in the four years that I have 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.
'Frankly, men who treat women like that in public, I fear how they treat them in private.
'I would hope someone would issue an apology but because I don't believe he will, I want to apologize to you... the people do not deserve to see that.'
The exchange between Higgins and Salter exploded when he pressed her on her use of petrochemical products.
He said: 'Everything you have - your clothes, your glasses, the car you got here on, your phone, the table you're sitting at, the chair, the carpet under your feet - everything you've got is petrochemical products what would you do with that? Tell the world.'
Salter fired back, getting progressively louder as Higgins spoke over her: 'If I had that power in the world, actually I don't need that power because what I would do is I would ask you sir from Louisiana to
