“That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person,” Cortez said before motioning to remove Greene’s statement from the official record. Greene then insulted Cortez’s intelligence after she asked for a debate.
“Why don’t you debate me,” Greene asked before telling Cortez, “You don’t have enough intelligence.”
The committee ruled that Greene’s words were allowed in the hearing, and Crockett took a shot at her looks as an example of how to use the ruling. “I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling: 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?” she said.
