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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she gained national attention for her progressive policies and advocacy on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and economic inequality. Ocasio-Cortez is known for her grassroots campaigning and her ability to mobilize young voters, making her a prominent figure in the progressive wing of the party.

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Oct 4, 2021

Thank you so much to Administrator Criswell for not only joining us today, but even recently coming to visit so many of our communities in New York, as well as across the country, who are so deeply devastated by Hurricane Ida.

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Oct 4, 2021

We have to stop focusing all of our efforts on historical risk... and look to our future risk.

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Oct 4, 2021

The risks we are seeing from climate change are the crisis of our generation.

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Oct 4, 2021

If your life was disrupted by the Facebook outage today and, say, you couldn’t communicate with loved ones because WhatsApp was down, or maybe your career or your small business took a hit because Instagram was down, maybe we should be…

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Oct 1, 2021

Can it be real? Are we going to deliver universal pre-K to this country or not? Are we going to expand healthcare to our seniors and include vision and dental or not? Are we going to invest in housing so that people back home in NYCHA can…

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Oct 1, 2021

We need a vote. We need to be real. Are we going to deliver universal Pre-K to this country or not? Are we going to expand health care to our seniors and include vision and dental or not? Are we going to invest in housing so that people…

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Sep 30, 2021

We need to vote. We need to be real. Are we going to deliver universal pre-K to this country or not? Are we going to expand health care to our seniors and include vision and dental or not? Are we going to invest in housing, so that people…

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Sep 29, 2021

We have two bills at present one which covers -- which underfunds most priorities across the board so there are very few priorities that even get the full funding that they even need.

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Sep 29, 2021

If we vote for this underfunded, too small infrastructure bill alone, instead of voting for it with the rest of the president`s agenda, it could make our climate crisis worse and it risks being the only or the last substantive piece of…

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Sep 29, 2021

I`m going to stick to the plan of our party to preserve the agenda of the president and make sure that -- you know, to send the message that we`re clear, we will vote for this if we also get the entire plan voted for.

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Sep 29, 2021

This myth that it is some person lurking on a street or in a parking lot waiting to sexually assault you... only benefits the abusers in power.

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Sep 29, 2021

I do feel optimistic because the Progressive Caucus and not just the Progressive Caucus, but we are now seeing a lot more Democrats, even not part of the Progressive Caucus, join and say, you know what, child care, health care, the climate…

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