AOC Lands A Role On The House Financial Services Committee
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January 16, 2019Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez landed a role on a key House committee– the House Financial Services Committee. She’ll be under the “leadership” (I use the term loosely) of none other than Maxine “Impeach 45” Waters.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has rejected corporate campaign donations and called for the biggest banks to be broken up, has been recommended for a seat on the powerful House Financial Services Committee, Bloomberg reports. https://t.co/OvGQgcPK5Z
— Axios (@axios) January 16, 2019
Financial Services is one of just four exclusive committees in the House. It oversees big banks, lending, & the financial sector.
I am very grateful for the opportunity to sit on this committee as a freshman, and look forward to working under the leadership of @RepMaxineWaters! https://t.co/kIq5iDcrTV
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 16, 2019
Personally, I’m looking forward to digging into the student loan crisis, examining for-profit prisons/ICE detention, and exploring the development of public & postal banking. To start. 🙂
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 16, 2019
Personally, I’m still convinced you have no idea what you’re talking about 99% of the time.
Financial lobbyists in touch with Capitol Hill staff also expect Reps. Katherine Porter, D-Calif.; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.; and Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, to join the committee.
You hear that? Tlaib will be there too. What a bunch.
The new members could tilt the panel further left. Like Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley challenged a longtime Democratic incumbent in her primary, while Porter distinguished herself from Democratic opponents in California’s open primary system by gaining the endorsement of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Tlaib earned headlines earlier in January by enthusiastically proclaiming to a room of supporters that Democrats would impeach President Trump, a position House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., also supports. Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran with the Army National Guard, announced her intention to run for president earlier this week.
Basically, the committee is made up of a bunch of people who want to impeach President Trump. It sounds like they’ll be an effective group. //intense sarcasm
