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- McCarthy swiped at Pelosi ahead of Biden's state of the union address on Tuesday.
- "We're not going to do childish games tearing up a speech," he told CNN.
- Pelosi infamously ripped up a copy of Trump's speech after his 2020 SOTU address.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy insisted that Republicans would show proper decorum during President Joe Biden's state of the union address on Tuesday evening, swiping at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's viral moment tearing up former President Donald Trump's speech during his 2020 speech.
"We're members of Congress. We have a code of ethics of how we should portray ourselves," McCarthy told CNN's Manu Raju on Tuesday. "And that's exactly what we'll do. But we're not going to do childish games tearing up a speech."