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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.

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Sep 10, 2019

I'd also like to apologize to you both for the behavior of some of the members of this committee where they are speaking in profoundly dehumanizing terms to you, and you don't deserve that.

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Sep 10, 2019

For reasons that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, the litigation is irrelevant to the statement of a fact.

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Sep 10, 2019

there has been a lot of chaos caused by this policy change, and the administration, because they did not advise Congress ahead of time on how this would be enforced or what would happen, there are a lot of outstanding questions.

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Sep 10, 2019

I think that we should consider discussing a subpoena to get this information if we don't get it as requested.

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Sep 10, 2019

the Supreme Court has determined it, that ongoing litigation is not grounds to resist an answer to a congressional inquiry.

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Sep 10, 2019

This is a cruel policy change, and this fits a pattern that we have been seeing over and over again before this committee of a culture and an of policies specifically almost animated by cruelty.

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Sep 9, 2019

I want to spend some time here discussing some of 3M's current tactics when it comes to accepting responsibility for PFAS.

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Sep 9, 2019

It's Congress' fault, congressional Democrats.

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Sep 9, 2019

In the lobbying materials by the coalition, it states, and I quote, the weight of current scientific evidence does not show that PFOS or PFOA cause adverse health effects in humans at current rates of exposure.

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Sep 9, 2019

And if that's the case, why is 3M taking a position of denying the scientific findings of its own scientists?

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