The confrontation was just the latest dust-up in the House over mask-wearing, which many Republicans have refused to do.
Earlier Tuesday, Beatty, D-Ohio, ran into Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., outside her congressional office. Rogers, who has served in Congress since 1981, was maskless when they entered an elevator.Beatty asked him to put on his mask and Rogers begrudgingly agreed, she said in an interview with The Associated Press shortly after it happened.
Rogers proceeded to take his mask off when they got off the elevator and the two crossed paths again upon entering a train in the Capitol complex. That is when the interaction became hostile."He poked me in the middle of my back and said, ‘Get on the train,’" she said. "And I said, ‘Don’t you ever touch me.’"According to Beatty, Rogers replied, "Kiss my a—.""I hate to think if it had been reversed and a man of color ...
The apology came less than two hours after all 56 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, which Beatty chairs, stood on the steps of the House and demanded Rogers’ apology.
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