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"I have never seen members of Congress disrespect a witness in the way ..."

Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blast a GOP lawmaker for calling a witness "boo" …

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00:00The toxic petrochemical facilities are some of the most toxic polluting facilities in the world.
00:06Men who treat women like that in public, I fear how they treat them in private.
00:24Everything you have, your clothes, your glasses, the car you got her on, your phone,
00:29everything you've got is petrochemical products. What would you do with that? Tell the world.
00:35What I would do is ask you, sir, from Louisiana.
00:38I'm giving you the power.
00:40To search you, sir, from Louisiana, to search your heart and understand why the EPA knows that
00:48toxic petrochemical facilities are some of the most toxic polluting facilities in the world
00:54and are killing black people throughout Louisiana.
00:57So my first thing would be for you to search your heart and ask your God
01:02what you are doing to the black and poor people in Louisiana.
01:08In the four years that I've sat on this committee, I have never seen members of Congress,
01:15Republican or Democrat, disrespect a witness in the way that I have seen them disrespect you today.
01:24I do not care what party they are in. I've never seen anything like that.
01:32And for the gentleman of Louisiana and the comfort that he felt in yelling at you like that,
01:44there's more than one way to get a point across.
01:47And frankly, men who treat women like that in public, I fear how they treat them in private.
02:00We can be better than this. We don't have to resort to yelling.
02:04I would hope that someone would issue you an apology,
02:08but because I don't believe he will, I want to apologize to you
02:13about the conduct of this committee and what we just witnessed.
02:18The people do not deserve to see that, and we deserve to put forward a better front.
02:25So I just want to let you know that, Ms. Salter.