At a hearing Wednesday in which witnesses discussed the atrocities that Russians in Ukraine have reportedly committed including using rape as a weapon of war and indiscriminately bombing civilian targets one GOP congressman used his time to ask about President Joe Bidens son Hunter.

The query so angered one of his Democratic colleagues on the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he used his time to say he was horrified and disgusted by it.

Its sickening. Its disrespectful. This is not about Hunter Biden, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) said in response to Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perrys remark.

This is about Vladimir Putin. Its about genocide. Its about depravity. And its about war crimes. Thats why were here.

Perry is chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservatives and libertarians within the larger House Republican conference that prides itself on pushing the Republican Party ever further to the right.

At the hearing, Andriy Kostin, Ukraines prosecutor general, said the country was investigating about 80,000 reports of war crimes, including the kidnapping of about 20,000 Ukrainian children who were taken to Russia. He asked for continued U.S. logistical and financial support for the prosecution efforts.

Some House Republicans , especially among Perrys group, have been skeptical of U.S. support for Ukraine. Republicans leading presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump , has mused that he would have allowed Russia to keep some of Ukraines land in exchange for ending the war, a position Ukrainians overwhelmingly oppose.