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A Republican senator and the president of the Teamsters union nearly got in a fistfight Tuesday in the middle of a Senate hearing, until Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders stepped in and broke it up.<\/p>\n

The exchange began when Sen. Markwayne Mullin, Okla., read a tweet that Teamsters President Sean O’Brien had posted in June. <\/p>\n

“You want to run your mouth? We can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here,” Mullin said to O’Brien, who was testifying at a hearing on labor unions in America.<\/p>\n

“OK, that’s fine, perfect,” O’Brien replied. “I’d love to do it right now.”<\/p>\n

“Then stand your butt up then,” Mullin shot back.<\/p>\n

“You stand your butt up,” O’Brien said.<\/p>\n

Mullin, dressed in a white shirt and no jacket, then stood up and began to move toward O’Brien.<\/p>\n

“No, no, sit down! Sit down! You’re a United States senator!” shouted Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and chairman\u00a0of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u00a0Committee <\/p>\n

Mullin and O’Brien continued to trash talk each other in the hearing room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“This is a hearing. And God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress, let’s not make it worse,” Sanders said.<\/p>\n

The feud between the senator and the union boss began months earlier.<\/p>\n

Mullin told O’Brien “to shut your mouth” in a heated exchange during a prior hearing in March.<\/p>\n

In a social media post later, in June, O’Brien ragged on Mullin as a “clown and a fraud.”<\/p>\n

“Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You know where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy,” O’Brien wrote on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Days later, Mullin returned fire, saying he accepted the invitation and proposing a mixed martial arts fight for charity.<\/p>\n

It was this exchange that prompted Mullin to challenge O’Brien to a fight in Tuesday’s hearing.<\/p>\n

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