Drinking was allegedly taking place in a committee room where a hearing devolved into insults of “fake eyelashes” and “bleach blonde bad-built butch body” being slung across the chamber by Republican and Democrat lawmakers on Thursday.

As the House Oversight Committee hearing yesterday devolved into an insult fest, two of its sharpest-tongued members traded barbs that were emblematic of the precipitous drop in decorum — and the cratering of foundational member respect — now commonplace in once respected arenas of government.