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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she gained national attention for her progressive policies and advocacy on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and economic inequality. Ocasio-Cortez is known for her grassroots campaigning and her ability to mobilize young voters, making her a prominent figure in the progressive wing of the party.

Jul 28, 2021

even just recently, just a couple of days ago, we saw that the Texas Senate passed a bill that removes education of Martin Luther King, women's suffrage, and Native-American history from required curriculum in the state of Texas.

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Jul 27, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I present this amendment at the desk today because for a very long period of time, the United States has and continues to uphold obsolete and old provisions from the war on drugs. This provision specifically has, for a very…

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Jul 27, 2021

Mr. Speaker, to that point, I believe that this problem does very much exist. Much of the research that is being conducted today must rely on private funding, and we cannot allow for that to be limited in its scope. If we only allow…

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Jul 27, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, with acknowledgment of that point, I think many of us have a shared outcome and a shared goal here, which is to help people who are hurting. Right now, more than 40,000…

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Jul 27, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 187, lines 11 through 22, strike section 507 of division A. The SPEAKER pro…

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Jul 27, 2021

Mr. Speaker, briefly, I think one of the things that is important to acknowledge is that to have such a broad and vague provision in what qualifies as promotion, it includes research and, one could argue, primarily affects scientific…

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Jul 26, 2021

I think one of the things that we are seeing here is that we are facing a choice. Congress is facing a choice of whether we want to give Wall Street another tool of being in charge of the public's money and payments, or whether we can…

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Jul 21, 2021

Madam Speaker, it is such an honor to be here just over 2 years after we introduced the original Green New Deal resolution, which has now inspired a great deal of similar resolutions and Green New Deal resolutions adopted and introduced…

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Jul 20, 2021

Make sure to require co-pollutant tracking and accounting and demand cumulative impact analysis.

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Jul 20, 2021

When the standard has been used in New York, we have seen success.

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Jul 20, 2021

I am a deep believer in popular and public education on these issues, so I invite all of you to consider me your climate auntie.

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