Mike Rogers tried to attack Matt Gaetz on house floor

It was way worse than anything any congressmen experienced on Jan 6, 2021

That's hilarious if true.

You can take the republican out of Alabama, but you can’t …

That rug on his head looks preposterous. I can’t believe grown men do that. How could a woman ever get wet knowing that kind of vanity in a man.

He’s supposedly very self conscious about his wig. It looks even more ridiculous in person.

Other than McCarthy, what has Rogers ever fought for in DC? He will be the head of Armed Services Committee. He seems to have the the patience, calmness and thoughtfulness necessary to make life and death decisions.

This whole exercise is just the most recent exposure of how entitled these people are about virtually everything. McCarthy's turn to be speaker, how dare you oppose the majority, etc. They are awful people and I hope a bunch of these frick sticks get primaried.

Says the democrat boy toy. You do realize that democrats make up by far the largest percentage of trashy people. Criminals, demographics of free money & goods, uneducated as well as unemployed

Just wish Republicans could fight Dems with this passion, just once in my life.

Before congress fought like sissies.



The caning of Charles Sumner is probably the most famous violent attack in Congress, but it is far from the only one. In the three decades leading up to the Civil War, there were more than 70 violent incidents between congressmen, writes Yale history professor Joanne B. Freeman in The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War. It was a time of heightened tensions, especially over slavery—itself a violent institution that would drive the nation to a bloody war.

Congressmen during this period commonly carried pistols or bowie knives when they stepped onto the congressional floor. In fact, by the late 1850s, some constituents actually sent their congressmen guns. The fights that broke out among congressmen didn’t usually make it into newspapers (which themselves faced mob attacks for abolitionist sentiments); but there were some exceptions, especially in the decade before the Civil War. Brooks’ attack on Sumner, immortalized in a famous political cartoon, was one of those exceptions. Another was the only instance in which a congressman has ever killed another congressman.

t all started when Cilley, a Democrat from Maine, said something on the House floor that ticked off a prominent Whig newspaper editor. The editor asked Graves, a Whig from Kentucky, to hand-deliver a letter to Cilley asking if he wanted to take back what he’d said. But Cilley refused to accept the letter from the editor, who had a reputation for physically attacking congressmen, and Graves’ colleagues in the Whig party perceived this refusal as a slight. They advised Graves to challenge Cilley to a duel in order to maintain his political standing within his party. When Graves sent Cilley a letter challenging him to this duel, Cilley’s fellow Democrats told him he had to accept it for political reasons, too.

On February 24, 1838, the two representatives and several other men met for a duel with rifles in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Neither congressman was very good with a rifle, and both missed each other or misfired on the first two rounds. On the third round, Graves shot and killed his colleague, Cilley.


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