A hallway incident between Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., is now an issue for the House Ethics Committee to tackle.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., has asked the panel to investigate a physical interaction between the former speaker and Burchett, one of the Republicans who backed the effort to oust McCarthy from the speaker perch.
Burchett said McCarthy elbowed him in the back after the GOP conference meeting, according to an account by an NPR reporter who witnessed it. He chased after McCarthy and called him a “jerk” and a “pathetic man.”
