Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What can Congress do to break this cycle?

It's a captive market. It's one where we're forced to choose between two to three people.

I find this interesting, because this term 'free market' comes up very often, but I don't think people really understand what that means.

So my question to you is, why should we give you another dime?

I could've covered the insulin costs of a community of 21,400 people for the cost of your price-gouging.

In a single-payer healthcare system, an insulin dose can cost about $137 a vial.

Today is my lucky day. Because for ages we're consistently told that single-payer healthcare is too expensive.

I don't want people to walk away thinking I'm saying all immigration policy is meant to implement a White supremacist agenda.

But I also want to point out another fact: that hate also sometimes leads to policy, and policy sometimes reinforces that hate, as well as the rhetoric of our President.

It was labeled as an incident of domestic terrorism but it was not labeled as such?

And I could not help but--as much as I tried to dig in and explain, I could not help but feel and see that attacks committed by Muslim Americans were almost automatically labeled as domestic terrorist incidents, yet White supremacist…

This is an extraordinarily difficult subject to broach in broader conversation. It raises questions of what is White supremacy, what is anti-Semitism, what is anti-Black racism, what is Islamaphobia.

The Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer Hate Crime Reporting Act is something that you should consider.

I think we need to--people say 'opioid crisis' because that is what is killing so many people, but at its core, you are right, this is an addiction crisis, and we have to treat people as we find them.

Our major threats in Houston are methamphetamine, cocaine, and synthetic drugs.

The President's budget is proposing $1.5 trillion in cuts to the Medicaid program over the next 10 years.

It seems that upon closer inspection he is actually gutting the very programs that are critical to combating the opioid epidemic.

Each election, we have to see how it kind of continues to go, but each election you see it happening more and more...

So we passed a voter registration law, an automatic voter reg law in California.

We are trying to change that. My colleague from I think West Virginia always loves to point out California...

And so have you found that states with a history, in fact, those that were subjected to the Voting Rights Act, because they had disproportionately targeted communities of color and disenfranchising communities of color in the past, now…

Ms. Mason was released from prison, and she thought that she was eligible to vote.

I find it, the documents that were just submitted to the record, quite interesting from my colleague from Texas.

So people just throw out the term $32 billion. That is what is owed to New York City's Housing Authority alone, $32 billion.

A lot of private delivery corporations do not cover healthcare for a lot of their employees. It's extremely stressful work conditions.