Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We have a responsibility to make a home for the people whose lives have been upended by interventionist U.S. foreign policy.

This idea that to even challenge the fact that his life and that everyone there’s life was in danger is -- it is ludicrous and plays into this very extreme Republican radicalization that what happened and the 6th was not serious.

It`s absolutely wild that members of Congress are still allowed to buy and sell individual stock. It shouldn`t be legal. We`ve introduced legislation to end the practice. But as one can imagine, it`s a very uphill battle to pass.

AOC accused Sinema of trying to nuke this entire process.

We will fight for you, and we are not stopping right now.

I frankly don’t know how colleagues, especially those who decided to get on a plane, instead of stay here in Washington and try to figure this out, explain it to their constituents.

We cannot hide behind the Republican Party in the lack of ability to extend the eviction moratorium.

The fact of the matter is, is that this was not just Republicans who objected to this. There were not the votes present.

So what we saw today was, frankly, a lot of lack of clarity in what was happening on the floor. And, eventually, what this concluded in, after negotiations all day in trying to secure the votes to extend the eviction moratorium, the House…

Representative Thompson, this sounds an awful lot like the Jim Crow that you grew up in and were born into. Based on your lived experience, would you say that these proposed voting laws are remnants of Jim Crow?

These bills will then expand the authority of partisan poll watchers by granting them -- quote, unquote -- what is known as free movement at a polling location, which could allow them to harass voters, correct?

These bills would then expand the authority of partisan poll watchers by granting them what is known as 'free movement' at a polling location, which could allow them to harass voters, correct?

So, to clarify, the Fifth Circuit already told Governor Abbott that these voter ID propositions are discriminatory, and Abbott knows this, has been told by the courts, and is still continuing to support laws that he knows are…

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.

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 corporations or if…

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 research to…

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…

I represent parts of the Bronx, where more than half of the residents are either unbanked or underbanked.

I realized that people don't even--a lot my colleagues don't even read the bills that they are commenting on.

A public bank would be chartered to serve the public good, and it would remove the profit-seeking shareholders.

This bill is about providing a public option for financial services--an option, not a government takeover.

I thank the Chair for his courage and his political courage and for being willing to convene this in front of the Financial Services Committee.

I think one of the things that is important to acknowledge is that this is one of our first congressional hearings on public banking in modern American history.

When the fires come, which communities do not have--do not have facilities outfitted with HEPA filters and other sorts of access to clean air?

The American Jobs Plan needs to ensure not only early action on emissions and co-pollutant reductions in frontline communities