A committee meeting on bills to exert greater federal control over the District of Columbia's criminal justice system erupted Wednesday as Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) got in a shouting match, with Frost calling Higgins a “lapdog” for President Trump.

Frost had asked Higgins, the sponsor of a bill to allow police greater authority to pursue suspects in fleeing vehicles, why he was not calling for National Guard troops in his state, as he was in the capital city.

“Louisiana is the state with the second-highest rate of deaths in this nation,” Frost said. “You are more likely to be shot standing on a random street in your state than you are........

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