Tempers flared on Capitol Hill Tuesday night after a Democratic representative tore into a GOP colleague for what she called an “eight weeks of taxpayer-funded vacation.”

Rep. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona took the pointed jab at Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina. The exchange came during a House Rules Committee hearing on the Senate’s newly advanced spending bill—the same legislation that finally brought Congress back into session after Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House in September, just before the government shutdown began on October 1.

Ansari began her remarks by greeting the Republican chair. “Thank you, Madam Chair. Welcome back from your eight weeks of taxpayer-funded vacation. It’s good to see you, and I hope–”

Foxx immediately cut her off. “I’m gonna interrupt you. I’m

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