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"Take it outside"

During the January 14, 2025 House Oversight Committee organizational meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace challenged Rep. Jasmine Crockett, "If you want to take it outside, we can do that", weeks after Mace had claimed an activist injured her arm with an aggressive handshake, a characterization critics disputed. The contrast spawned a round of memes pairing her challenge with images of full-body casts.

Nancy Mace and Jasmine Crockett split, Daily Dot coverage
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During the January 14, 2025 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform organizational meeting, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), debating an amendment to reinstate the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, criticized 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; he later said the remark could simply mean stepping outside for "a cup of coffee, or maybe a beer."

The mockery angle, as documented by the Daily Dot, turned on a contrast: weeks earlier Mace had said an activist injured her arm with an aggressive handshake, a characterization critics disputed, so when she dared a colleague to "take it outside," meme-makers paired the challenge with images of full-body casts, pointing out the apparent contradiction.

The exchange (NBC News clip):

NBC News, Rep. Nancy Mace challenges Rep. Jasmine Crockett during the January 14, 2025 House Oversight Committee organizational meeting.

Mace's post that evening:

Mace's post that evening, January 14, 2025.

Crockett's response:

Rep. Jasmine Crockett's response on X, January 14, 2025.

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The clip record

The following is the former /clips/take-it-outside-crockett catalog entry, merged here when the Clips section was consolidated into Dispatches (statement date January 14, 2025).

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