Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Do you believe climate change poses a risk to our economy?

Can I have your commitment before this committee that the NCUA will do everything in its power to ensure that any benefits extended to lenders could also be extended to owner-drivers in the form of principal reduction?

Some of my colleagues and I have called on the City to forgive the debt of these drivers.

Many of my constituents are waitresses, they are teachers, they are nurses.

I am here today to represent working people, and my district is quite working class.

But trust me, there will be a lot of pain.

And if there is an economic downturn again, would they be exposed to more risk than they were before?

So private equity contains more risk than other parts of the market, correct?

We need to think about our economy not just in terms of the returns for stockholders, but in terms of how the lives of workers are impacted.

I was sent here to safeguard and protect people. And we are talking about reining in private equity, which is responsible for wiping out tens of thousands of jobs at Toys R Us alone.

I wasn't sent here to safeguard and protect profits.

I have to admit that I am quite upset throughout this hearing, because I feel like a lot of the initial questions that we are hearing almost betray the priorities that we have had in our economy that have eroded people's quality of life.

Thank you very much. I yield my time to the chair.

I concur. I concur with you, Mr. Favors.

Yet, we just have a memo from just last month the Department of Defense saying this is not.

I am dumbfounded because, like, you know, here is an official Air Force document from 1989 where the Air Force says clearly other chemicals which could conceivably cause acute toxicity problems would be fuels, oil spills, and a triple F…

Department of Defense Memorandum; submitted by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.

List of 30 corporations that have employed lobbyist to discuss PFAS policy and legislation; submitted by Rep.Ocasio-Cortez.

I can assure the opposition that that is the case.

I think it is quite funny how the matters of people's lives are being diminished by such horrible allegations.

Mr. Cuccinelli, do you believe that you treated children with cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other diseases with the dignity and courtesy of the mission of this agency, when you decided, in secret, to end consideration of deferred action and…

So, Mr. Cuccinelli, I think what is tough here is that--and while I respect that Congress hasn't done its job, in many respects, in defining immigration policy, it has been a failure for a very long time, for Congress to be able to define…

I see. Mr. Cuccinelli, in August you told Fox News that you, quote, "see USCIS as a vetting agency, not a benefits agency."

But you have discretion in your role. So, here is the thing that I can't figure out, is that you have thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of cases, if not millions.

Do you believe that you treated children with cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other diseases with the dignity and courtesy of the mission of this agency?