Another volume on House procedure, Cannon’s Precedents - written by the late Rep. Clarence Cannon, D-Mo., not the late House Speaker Joe Cannon, R-Ill. – prohibits "personal criticism, innuendo, ridicule or terms of opprobrium." But the late House Speaker Tip O’Neill, D-Mass., was the last Speaker to have words "taken down" on May 15, 1984. O'Neill didn't appreciate future House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., implying that Democrats were silent as he "challenged their Americanism" while speaking to an empty chamber. O’Neill thundered from the House floor at Gingrich, then a mere backbencher, that he had done "the lowest thing I have ever seen in my 32 years in Congress." In December 1973, the late Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y., suggested that an amendment offered by the late Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., was "racist."

Source: Fox News July 18, 2019 00:50 UTC