Tensions flared on Capitol Hill when a sitting U.S. senator engaged in a heated exchange with a union advocate during a committee hearing on labor issues.
The confrontation escalated to the point where Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had to step in as a referee, defusing the situation and preventing the confrontation from becoming physical.
Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin took the mic to blast Teamsters president Sean O’Brien regarding personal attacks he made against him in June 2023. The labor advocate called Mullin “greedy” and a fraud who fakes like he is “tough.”
O’Brien was at the Tuesday, Nov. 14, hearing, at Sanders’s invitation, to testify to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee about how unions are improving the lives of working families. Sanders, the committee chairman, might not have been aware of the previous contentious feelings between the union rep and the Oklahoma senator.
Mullin read one of five tweets directly targeting him, reading out loud, “Greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self-made. In reality, it’s just a clown & fraud. Always has been, always will be.”
Greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self made. In reality, just a clown & fraud. Always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You know where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy. #LittleManSyndrome pic.twitter.com/JNvT7IsA6m
— Sean M. O’Brien (@TeamsterSOB) June 21, 2023
Mullin explained as he read the tweet that he was far from a fraud.
“I wish you was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company, myself, and my wife was running the office because I should remember working pretty hard and long hours,” he said.
As he continued to go over the tweet, he landed on the ending: “Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You know where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy. #LittleManSyndrome.”
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