Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

How do we make sure that--you know, how are we accommodating or changing our process to really be adaptive to that reality?

If you engage in Census you will get more political power.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has been a passionate champion of making sure everyone in New York City and across the United States gets counted in the Census

Whether we are concerned about this for--whether we are concerned about this for a civil liberty reason, whether we are concerned about this for criminal justice reform reasons, about right to privacy, this is about who we are as America.

It is so critical that part of our operation here as government and part of, as Mr. DeSaulnier expressed, is making government responsive and making sure that we are ahead of the curve so we are not consistently operating out of a reactive…

So we have a technology that was created and designed by one demographic that is only mostly effective on that one demographic and they are trying to sell it and impose it on the entirety of the country?

And right now companies, governments, agencies can essentially steal or use your biometric data from you without your consent and this is outrageous, right, because this is America and we have a right to privacy.

I would like to seek unanimous consent on how Amazon actually met with ICE officials over a facial recognition system that could identify immigrants.

Justice Alito said it would be very unfortunate if privacy protection in the 21st century were left primarily to the Federal courts.

Only legislation can respond to the real-time threats of real-time technology.

NYCHA and public housing across the country has been starved by Members of Congress for over 15 years.

I don't think, no matter what policy changes we make, that you can take food away from a child and then not understand why they can't or don't eat.

I think it is important to note that this is not about throwing more money to the problem; this is about throwing the money at the problem.

I am concerned here that the war on drugs has not been solely limited to incarceration and that the negative impact of the war on drugs has not been limited to incarceration, but also, we have legislative rippling effects that also seem to…

Out of every 10 people that need PrEP, nine of them cannot access it, and that is largely due to the price.

Her daughter's life was not. People's lives are not commodities.

We have a leader here, Mr. Sarbanes, who has led in the role of money and politics.

So I think it is important that we notice here that we the public, we the people developed this drug, we paid for this drug, we led and developed all of the grounding patents to create PrEP, and then that patent has been privatized.

Mr. O'Day, you have given the American people a very bad deal for our money.

Mr. O'Day, we are suffocating under the weight of your company's pricing.

Finally, let me note that this is a bipartisan issue. HIV has no boundaries.

This treatment is available in other countries for much, much less. In Australia, patients pay less than $7 a pill.

We want the prices to come down. We want truth.

How can our system allow a company to take a drug treatment that was developed with taxpayer funds and abuse this monopoly to charge such astronomical prices?

What Amy says, what Ms. Vilela says is this is a commodity. Her daughter's life was not.