"If you want to take it outside", Mace challenges Rep. Jasmine Crockett
At the January 14, 2025 House Oversight Committee organizational meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace told Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) "if you want to take it outside, we can do that," after Crockett said "and chile, listen" while criticizing Mace's rhetoric on transgender people. A Democratic member moved to have Mace's words "taken down" as inciting violence; Mace later said she meant taking the conversation off the floor, not a fight.
On January 14, 2025, at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's organizational meeting for the 119th Congress, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), debating an amendment to reinstate the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, criticized Rep. Nancy Mace's rhetoric on transgender people and said "and chile, listen." Mace, taking it as being called a child, cut in: "Do not call me a child. I am no child. I am a grown woman. I am 47 years old. I have broken more glass ceilings than you ever have… If you want to take it outside, we can do that."
Chairman James Comer gaveled for order, and a Democratic member moved to have Mace's words "taken down" as inciting violence against another member. Comer later said the remark could simply mean stepping outside for "a cup of coffee, or maybe a beer."
Mace said afterward that she meant taking the conversation off the floor for a more constructive discussion, not a fight, and that there was never any intention to cause harm. Crockett's office said Mace had threatened physical violence. The two are political opponents on the same committee; this exchange is unrelated to the South Carolina litigation.
This entry embeds NBC News's clip of the exchange, embedding is not rehosting; the platform serves the video. The committee's own gavel-to-gavel feed is a single static wide shot that does not reframe to vertical.
Source: NBC News, "Rep. Mace challenges Rep. Crockett to 'take it outside'" · Full dispatch · Jasmine Crockett