Sheila Jackson Lee: ‘Words Nowadays Can Actually Break Your Bones’

Sheila Jackson Lee insisted Democrats would be the “adults” in the next Congress and focus on legislation. The committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot from 2020 has earned plenty of pushback from conservative lawmakers, who have argued the long-running investigation is not where congressional focus should be.

“It degrades the Congress,” Jackson Lee said of McCarthy potentially targeting Democratic lawmakers. She pointed to Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as lawmakers McCarthy should be focused on, noting a bizarre cartoon post from Gosar showing himself attacking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Jackson Lee also accused Taylor Greene of pushing “anti-Semitic” and “anti-Muslim” views and threatening Democratic leadership.

The congresswoman noted that McCarthy has had private conversations with his party’s more extreme members, but insisted this does nothing.