Ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Accused Of Elbowing GOP Rep. Tim Burchett In The Kidney

Capitol Hill was the site of more than one tussle between lawmakers on Tuesday.

Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy got physical with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenessee). Burchett accused McCarthy of elbowing him in “the kidney” in a Capitol hallway.

Burchett was one of the conservative members of the House that voted to oust McCarthy.

Burchett told reporters that McCarthy elbowed him in the back as he was talking to a reporter.

“I ran after McCarthy and I said, ‘What’d you so that for?’ He acted like, ‘Oh, I didn’t do anything,'” Burchett explained.

Burchett then yelled at McCarthy, screaming, “Hey Kevin, have some guts.”

McCarthy denied intentionally hurting Burchett.

“I didn’t shove or elbow him, it’s a tight hallway,” he said.

Hours later, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the General Services Administration, Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) engaged in a heated conversation with Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Florida) after the Democrat accused the panel’s chairman of making a sizeable loan to his brother, likening it to the one that President Joe Biden allegedly made to his brother.

“That is bulls—,” Comer denied the accusation, saying that they would only be furthered by “dumb, financially illiterate people.”

“You and Mr. [Daniel] Goldman (D-New York), who is Mr. Trust Fund,” Comer continued to Moskowitz, “you look like a smurf here just going around on all this stuff… You’ve already been proven a liar.”

In addition, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) had to break up a fight between Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) and Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, during a congressional hearing on Tuesday to discuss the impact of unions on working-class families.

McCarthy has been outspoken since his ouster as speaker, going as far as saying there should be “consequences” for members who voted against him.