House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) called her Republican colleagues "terrorists" Tuesday afternoon, sending the committee into recess.

The full committee was considering a funding proposal for the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development when DeLauro, who had already given remarks against the bill, called many Republicans "terrorists" for proposing an amendment.

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"You are negotiating with terrorists," she said, to the audible disgust of many Republicans. "Members on your side, I will continue to call out the harm you are doing in this process, both in what these bills proposed to do and in your approach on how we treat one another."

DeLauro was apparently referring to some in the House Freedom Caucus, as she said committee Republicans were "placat[ing] the whims of some who, I might add in looking historically, do not ever vote for appropriations bills."

Republicans motioned for the Connecticut Democrat's words to be stricken from the record, sending the committee into recess for review. After the afternoon recess, DeLauro herself asked for "the offending words" to be withdrawn.

The amendment at issue, which was proposed by Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK), blocked federal funding for earmarks related to LBGT-oriented projects as well as "extraneous flags," like the "gay pride" flag, from being flown at departments or agencies.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), a gay progressive on the committee, also gave strong remarks about the amendment, saying such actions could lead to gay people being beaten unconscious with baseball bats.

"I wasn't out yet, left a gay bar, and two people followed me and beat me with a baseball bat 'till I was bloodied unconscious and called me a 'faggot,'" Pocan said. "This is what you guys do by introducing amendments like this taking away from people's earmarks.

"If you were to take away earmarks because they went to the NAACP or the Urban League, you would rightfully be called racist bigots," he shouted, adding, "but when you do it to the LGBT community, it's another frickin' day in Congress.

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"They always say there are Democrats, Republicans, and appropriators, and now we have to say there are Democrats, Republicans, appropriators, and unfortunately a bigger umbrella called bigots," he shouted again.

The committee has not yet voted on the amendment.