Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And there are three reports required. They submitted the first one and the second one, but not the third one that is required to Congress.

We are now in violation of the U.S. Census Act of 1974, which requires you to submit a specific report to Congress ahead of any changes that you find necessary.

So what we don't have is the required report to Congress. And while there's all of this debate about whether a citizenship question should be included or not included, the question I have is why are we violating the law to include any…

I believe that Congress passing this bill will continue that conversation.

I think that we should also be expanding this conversation so that we are not just allowing or creating opportunities for the formerly incarcerated to have only minimum wage jobs.

Congress has done something wrong. And we have a debt to society, because the war on drugs is widely recognized as a horrific and non-evidence-based policy.

Banning the box is not legislation to end racism in America.

Representative Ocasio-Cortez, the New York legislature did the same.

That is why we try to avoid shutdowns.

It is important for all of us to have current information on the agency compliance with FOIA.

I would also like to note the irony of the fact that we are gathered here today in bipartisan support of a socialized insurance program that is designed to help people when the private market fails to protect homeowners.

I just can't resist commenting on the earlier question which does, I can confirm, happen at every hearing: socialism or capitalism.

To your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?

Why did Wells Fargo finance this pipeline, when it was widely seen to be environmentally unstable?

Should Wells Fargo be held responsible for the damages incurred by climate change due to the financing of fossil fuels and these projects?

Wells Fargo has pursued profits without principles by investing in private prisons, for-profit immigration detention centers...

Drug makers have poured close to $2.5 billion into lobbying and funding Members of Congress over the last decade.

I would like to submit to the record, and I seek unanimous consent to submit to the record, this New York Times article that displays the urgent need for Federal opioid response.

The truth is, is that it impacts all of us.

I do think that despite the fact that I disagree with how, I mean, disagree is a mild term, but disagree with the President's course of action, I do think that we here in Congress have responsibility here as well.

It impacts all of us.

So we have got two emergencies. One is treated with an actual action and the other is just to raise awareness.

I am concerned that when it comes to truly prioritizing and solving the opioid crisis, the President is saying one thing but doing another.

I think the steps that Mick Mulvaney and Kathy Kraninger have taken are pretty indefensible across the board.

This is an issue that should know no partisan bounds.