Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

If it weren't for the Federal unemployment supplemental program, families would have been potentially enduring months of unemployment

In March and April 2020 alone, the economy lost more than 22 million jobs, and the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 14.7 percent.

If we are going to perform oversight, then let's perform oversight.

I find it very interesting because as was stated at the beginning, the bipartisan nature of oversight is what gives it its power.

This hearing is called Federal Pandemic Spending: A Prescription for Waste, Fraud and Abuse, UI, unemployment assistance, the Paycheck Protection Program, all of it.

I think one of the things that we all want to acknowledge is gratitude for your willingness to be able to work to accommodate the Ranking Member and the various conditions that we would have to adapt to.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 35 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee.

Lastly, I have an amendment at the desk, No. 73. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 2, strike ``shall not provide'' and insert ``may not--''. Page 3, line 2…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 73 Offered by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez

I have an amendment at the desk, No. 72. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 2, strike ``shall not provide'' and insert ``may not--''. Page 3, line 2, before ``for…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 72 Offered by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez

I have an amendment at the desk, No. 74. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 2, strike ``shall not provide'' and insert ``may not--''. Page 3, line 2, before ``for…

Republicans are in support, Democrats are in support — so what happened? Well, on December 15th, at 4:15 in the morning, Elon Musk began firing off a barrage of social media posts opposing pharmacy benefit manager reform.

If enacted, Mr. Johnson's heinous bill would, among other things, prohibit federally funded schools from providing sex education or library books to children under 10 that include LGBTQ topics.

Representative Ocasio-Cortez co-leads the Harnessing Opportunities by Pursuing Expungement, or HOPE, Act, an important bill for those impacted by prohibition.

Now, last year, to the chairman's point, I actually introduced a bipartisan bill with Congressman Joyce of Ohio to help fix this issue for the Federal Government to actually begin creating grants to hand to states and local municipalities…

Well, I thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank you for convening a hearing on bipartisan consensus on cannabis reform.

I think this came up earlier around ectopic pregnancies.

They are not able to access it at the pharmacy.

Many of these abortion--these anti-abortion laws, these forced-birth laws, are written by legislators that really have very little clue into the nuances of medical care.

The same folks who tell us and told us that COVID's just a flu, that climate change isn't real, that January 6th was nothing, but a tourist visit, are the same--are now trying to tell us that transgender people are not real.

Forcing poor and working-class people to give birth against their will, against their consent, against their ability to provide for themselves or a child is a profound economic issue.

Do you think we need to review his financial statements and his tax returns in order to compare them?

Did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?

For your awareness, your banks have opted out of Paycheck Protection Program forgiveness.