WASHINGTON — Just months into her two-year term as a congressional representative, Jasmine Crockett rocked the halls of Washington, D.C., during a House Oversight and Accountability hearing. The freshman Democrat spoke out against her GOP colleagues’ stance on crime on Tuesday.

“My Republican colleagues want to talk about keeping D.C. streets crime free. They can’t even keep the halls of Congress crime free,” Crockett said. “My freshman colleague has just been indicted on 13 felony counts. Right? But, have they exhibited any courage to say you know what? We will disallow this in our body. We will make sure that we will expel this individual — they have not. So, what I don’t want to hear is that they care about crime because if they did, they would start by cleaning up our own house and mind our own business instead of coming after D.C.”

On May 10, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York unsealed a 13-count indictment charging congressional representative George Santos with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives. Santos pleaded not guilty to the charges.

“This indictment seeks to hold Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations,” said Breon Peace, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “Taken together, the allegations in the indictment charge Santos with relying on repeated dishonesty and deception to ascend to the halls of Congress and enrich himself. He used political contributions to line his pockets, unlawfully applied for unemployment benefits that should have gone to New Yorkers who had lost their jobs due to the pandemic, and lied to the House of Representatives.”

“My office and our law enforcement partners will continue to aggressively root out corruption and self-dealing from our community’s public institutions and hold public officials accountable to the constituents who elected them.”

On Wednesday, the House avoided an on-the-record decision on whether to expel Santos. Instead, they voted to move the Democratic-proposed resolution to the House Ethics Committee. The entire House adopted the Republican-led motion in a party-line vote of 221-204, with seven members voting present.

“I am personally in favor of this individual’s expulsion from this House,” said Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., in a floor speech. “Regrettably, though, I’m in the understanding that we currently do not have the two-thirds support from members in this House to expel that individual.”

Crockett also discussed former President Donald Trump in the hearing. Last week, a Manhattan federal jury found that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll back in 1996 while in a luxury store’s dressing room. Carroll was awarded $5 million for battery and defamation. Although the jury found that he sexually abused her enough to hold him liable for battery, the jury did not find that Carroll proved that Trump raped her.

“I am so excited my colleagues across the aisle care about sexual abuse considering that the frontrunner right now for presidency has just been found liable for of sexual abuse,” she said. “So, I’m excited because this may mean that finally some folk will back off from supporting him, because we don’t support sexual abusers in this chamber. So, I’m happy about this.”