Acrimonious debates and disputes in Congress are as old as Congress itself.
This cartoon satirizes the intense factional fighting in President John Adams’s administration (1797-1801). On the right, Roger Griswold, a Federalist, holds a cane, while his adversary, Matthew Lyon, a Jeffersonian, holds fire tongs.
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"This abusive exchange was in part a battle between two ideologically opposed representatives over current political controversy. Lyon and Griswold were of conflicting political orientations that had been at odds with one another over recent debates about American international relations.
http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH41/Neff41.html
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Sound familiar?