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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We should override the parliamentarian. I think that this is a matter of course. And that our constituents and people…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2021
We should override the parliamentarian. I think that this is a matter of course. And that our constituents and people across this country put Democrats in power to among other things establish the $15 minimum wage. We have a responsibility to do that. Our two options are to override the parliamentarian or eliminate the filibuster, those are the only two paths we have in order to create substantive change in the United States and that`s what people across the country sent us to do.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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msnbc.com

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Ocasio-Cortez argues for overriding the Senate parliamentarian to establish a $15 minimum wage.

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