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Pelosi Crosses the Aisle on Immigration Reform – Sort of

House Minority Leader has finally crossed the partisan aisle.  She was running and wagging her finger as she scolded Congressman Tom Marino (R-PA) after he called her out on not dealing with immigration reform while while she led the Democratic parties majority in the House.

In an unusual breach of decorum, even for the divided Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chased Rep. Tom Marino across the House floor, taking offense at comments by the Pennsylvania Republican during debate on the border funding bill Friday night.

“We don’t have law and order,” Marino began as he wrapped up his comments on the border supplemental. “My colleagues on the other side don’t want to do anything about it.”

“You know something that I find quite interesting about the other side? Under the leadership of the former Speaker [Pelosi], and under the leadership of their former leader [Rep. Steny Hoyer], when in 2009 and 2010, they had the House, the Senate and the White House, and they knew this problem existed,” he continued. “They didn’t have the strength to go after it back then. But now are trying to make a political issue out of it now.”

Off-mic, Pelosi then approached Marino, crossing the aisle in view of cameras, and apparently challenged Marino’s assertion that Democrats did not do anything about the issue when they had majority control.

“Yes it is true,” Marino replied directly to Pelosi, who was House speaker in those years. “I did the research on it. You might want to try it. You might want to try it, Madam Leader. Do the research on it. Do the research. I did it. That’s one thing that you don’t do.”

Marino then urged lawmakers to support the border supplemental “because apparently I hit the right nerve.”

After Marino concluded his remarks and as many Republicans applauded their colleague, Pelosi crossed the chamber again in view of cameras, enraged, pointing and sticking her finger at Marino.

She then followed Marino up a Republican aisle, gesturing and arguing with him. Lawmakers on the GOP side gathered in dismay as one spoke out to tell the chair that the House was not in order, in an effort to halt the bickering.

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Congressman Marino was seen shaking hands after the event and Congresswomen Pelosi’s office said that they both had apologized for the event.  Marino took to twitter shortly after to set the record straight:

Rep Marino (R-PA) is now shaking hands and talking to Pelosi after they got into it on the House floor during the GOP border bill debate

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) August 2, 2014

Rep. Pelosi called me an 'insignificant person' on the Floor of the House. I'll ponder that for a while driving to Williamsport tonight…

— Rep. Tom Marino (@RepTomMarino) August 2, 2014

…of course I'll be driving myself, with no staff or security. And I'm just a country lawyer who worked in a bakery until he was 30…

— Rep. Tom Marino (@RepTomMarino) August 2, 2014

…so maybe I am not significant enough to question the former Speaker. But why then did she get so bothered by my comments?

— Rep. Tom Marino (@RepTomMarino) August 2, 2014

.@HouseGOP has reached a new low with votes to deport DREAMers and unaccompanied children escaping violence. Unconscionable. #BorderCrisis

— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) August 2, 2014

Don’t text and drive.

Related:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi crosses the aisle — to angrily confront Rep. Tom Marino

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