⁍ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York sharply condemned GOP Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida for verbally accosting her outside the steps of Capitol Hill.

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⁍ She criticized what was, in her view, an insufficient attempt at a public apology.

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⁍ ‘I was minding my own business walking up the steps and Rep. Yoho put his finger in my face, he called me disgusting, he called me crazy, he called me out of mind, and he called me dangerous,’ she said.

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– “I was minding my own business walking up the steps and Rep. Yoho put his finger in my face, he called me disgusting, he called me crazy, he called me out of mind, and he called me dangerous,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the House floor Thursday. The New York Democrat was referring to an exchange she had with Yoho outside the steps of Capitol Hill on Tuesday, in which Yoho called her a “f—ing b—-,” the Hill reports. The Florida Republican apologized on the House floor Wednesday, but Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t satisfied. “I could not allow my nieces, I could not allow the little girls I go home, I could not allow the victims of verbal abuse and worse to see that, to see that excuse, and to see our Congress accept it as legitimate and accept it as an apology,” she said. She also criticized Yoho for using his wife and daughters as “shields and excuses for poor behavior.” “I am two years younger than Mr. Yoho’s youngest daughter,” she said. “I am someone’s daughter, too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter. My mother got to see Mr. Yo