An anti-Obama heckler interrupted New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone on Thursday as he read from the Constitution on the House floor.

Pallone, who lives in Long Branch, was reading the portion of the Constitution that declares “no person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President.”

At that point, a woman in the gallery above hollered, “Except Obama, except Obama!” The woman was removed from the gallery.

Since his presidential campaign, some critics of President Barack Obama have claimed he is not a U.S. citizen. The Obama campaign released a certificate of live birth in 2008, an official document from the state of Hawaii listing the president’s name, birth date, city and his parents’ names.

Pallone said he was “very surprised” at the interruption. “It was very disrespectful. Democrats and Republicans are reading the Constitution in a very respectful atmosphere and this spectator starts screaming,” he said. “This is a settled matter of fact and some people have no respect for the decorum of the House even when we’re reading the Constitution.”

The new Republican majority insisted on reading the Constitution as one of their first acts in Congress this week. During the 2010 elections, the GOP and tea party activists argued Democrats in Washington had grown government beyond the boundaries expressed in the Constitution.