"We don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting," Greene told a U.K reporter asking about the Signal mishap.

Ossoff has generally shunned the spotlight in Washington. But he's ramping up his rhetoric in advance of his first reelection campaign.

Sadly, Messrs. Elmo, Monster, and Bird were nowhere to be seen on Capitol Hill today. They would not have fit in, anyway, as the proceedings in a crowded basement-level hearing room of the Capitol Visitor Center were not sweet, accepting, or the least bit neighborly.