In this March 19, 2013 file photo, Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Farenthold says it’s “absolutely repugnant” that the GOP-led Senate hasn’t acted on repealing the health care law and he singled out “some female senators from the Northeast.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
A Texas congressman raised the possibility of a duel with U.S. Sen. Susan Collins during a radio interview Friday.
U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, a Republican, told a Corpus Christi radio host that the GOP’s health care bill was sidelined by women senators.
“The fact that the Senate does not have the courage to do some of the things that every Republican in the Senate promised to do is just absolutely repugnant to me,” Farenthold told host Bob Jones’ “1140 Keys.”
“Some of the people that are opposed to this, there are female senators from the Northeast,” he said; Collins is the only New England Republican in the Senate.
“If it was a guy from South Texas, I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr style,” the congressman said.
Burr, a former vice president, shot Alexander Hamilton, a former secretary of the treasury, to death in a famous duel in New Jersey that’s a centerpiece of the current Broadway hit “Hamilton.”
Dueling is illegal in every state so Collins is unlikely to take up the challenge.
Two other women senators, Republicans Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Shelly Moore-Capito of West Virginia, have also spoken out against the Republican health care bill, though not with the same vehemence that Collins has displayed.
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