Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Credit scores are life-altering pieces of information.

So consumers own their data, but credit bureaus collect their information without their consent?

And all three of your bureaus--Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion--are for-profit corporations, is that correct?

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. And thank you to our three witnesses here today. I know it has been a long day, so I appreciate you all coming.

A very large amount of high-income foreign buyers are taking up a large amount of this inventory...

There were 250,000 vacant apartments in New York City as of March of 2018...

The math doesn't add up, is that wages are too low and rent is too high...

I think we have identified large causal factors, whether it is the racist legacy of our criminal justice system...

The folks who profited off of for-profit incarceration get to profit off of the legalization of marijuana first while the communities most impacted are last in the door.

So these industries are in no way looking--and it doesn't look like any of the people who are reaping the profits of this are the people who were directly impacted?

I am listening to all of this testimony today, and one of the questions and the concerns that I have is with respect to the racial wealth gap.

This is a massive transformation of our society with clear goals and a timeline.

Americans love a challenge. This is our moonshot.

We must get to 0 by 2030 and lead the world in a global Green New Deal.

And it's already super legal, as we have seen, for me to be a pretty bad guy. So it's even easier for the President of the United States to be one, I would assume?

So I'm being held and every person in the body is being held to a higher ethical standard than the President of the United States?

So I can be totally funded by oil and gas. I can be totally funded by Big Pharma, come in, write Big Pharma laws, and there's no limits to that whatsoever?

So green light for hush money. I can do all sorts of terrible things. It's totally legal right now for me to pay people off.

So we have a system that is fundamentally broken. We have these influences existing in this body.

There's nothing stopping me from being entirely funded by corporate PACs.

So let's play a game. Let's play a lightning round game. I'm going to be the bad guy.

2019 is the 100th anniversary of the women's right to vote and I think that we're all coming here -- there's so much more that we have to fight for from wage equality, to paycheck fairness, to protecting ourselves and believing survivors.

I think that, you know, for me, what I see is that as a representative and as a congresswoman, it's -- I'm going in there to definitely listen what to what the president has to say.

I think that this is an opportunity and it is a window for change it is a moment where we can come together and really talk about our values, that we are a nation that embraces immigrants, we are a nation that that believes in justice and…

I do think that there was some proper made on criminal justice reform and in, you know, in the last couple of months and I'm open to that.