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Ocasio-Cortez to join House panel overseeing financial sector
The Hill ^ | January 15, 2019 | Sylvan Lane, Scott Wong

Posted on 01/15/2019 6:52:05 PM PST by jazusamo

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is slated to join the committee leading the House's oversight of U.S banks, lenders and financial markets.

Ocasio-Cortez has been recommended by Democratic leaders for a spot on the House Financial Services Committee, a Democratic source told The Hill on Tuesday. The full roster of Democrats joining the committee is expected to be released as soon as Tuesday night.

Ocasio-Cortez told Hill.TV in November that she has expressed interest in the Financial Services panel to the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which doles out seats on House committees. Politico reported last week that Ocasio-Cortez was "poised to win" a spot on the Financial Services panel.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, has pledged to fight against the Trump administration's rollbacks of post-crisis bank rules. The assignment will give the influential Democratic freshman an powerful perch to push her party toward the left on critical financial issues.

While New Yorkers often land seats on the Financial Services panel, those who do are often more sympathetic Wall Street. Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic-Socialist, often touts her refusal to accept corporate donations and criticizes colleagues with close ties to the financial sector.

Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against a GOP proposal to dismantle the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law in 2017, and supports reimposing a 1930s separation of investment and consumer banking. She's also advocated for a drastic expansion of federal housing aid, a top priority for Waters.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; financecommittee; maxinewaters; ocasiocortez; rentfree; socialist; ushouse
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To: jazusamo

Thanks to the Democrats we finally get to see kakistocracy in action.


21 posted on 01/15/2019 7:11:21 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Not the greatest representative of their University....


22 posted on 01/15/2019 7:12:06 PM PST by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: rlmorel

Bump!


23 posted on 01/15/2019 7:13:55 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

From bartender to crème de la crème in a few months


24 posted on 01/15/2019 7:17:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: jazusamo

What could possibly go wrong???


25 posted on 01/15/2019 7:26:54 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: mrsmith
A freshman congressperson is the equivalent of “zero”.

Not when they have 2.4 million followers on Twitter.

The rules have changed.

26 posted on 01/15/2019 7:36:11 PM PST by Drew68
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To: jazusamo

Not necessarily. Pelosi has now paid off her debt and has AOC our of her hair. Maxine is just so Maxine she will stone wall the girlie from NY. Max doesn’t like to share the spotlight


27 posted on 01/15/2019 7:38:53 PM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: jazusamo

With mad max at the head, what more harm can this do? Certainly the entertainment value is maxed (npi) out.


28 posted on 01/15/2019 7:57:48 PM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: jazusamo

An idiot economics major that knows nothing about it on a financial oversight committee? What could possibly go wrong.


29 posted on 01/15/2019 7:58:00 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: jazusamo

It might be funny to see these morons destroy each other, but unfortunately they are dragging the country along with them, and that is not funny.


30 posted on 01/15/2019 7:59:51 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: jazusamo

LOL (I’ve got nothin’ else)


31 posted on 01/15/2019 8:10:42 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Drew68

“The rules have changed. “

We’ll see. Hillary and Obama could rise above their stations. Not sure that will happen in the House.


32 posted on 01/15/2019 8:10:54 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: jazusamo
From the article:Powerful perch? Influential Democrat[ic] freshman?

Wonder what they're smoking over at The Hill?

And who was responsible for the outstanding grammatical error in this sentence, Sylvan or Scott.

33 posted on 01/15/2019 8:46:37 PM PST by upchuck (Bruce Jenner is still a man. Homosexuality is still sin. The culture may change. The Bible does not.)
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To: jazusamo
While New Yorkers often land seats on the Financial Services panel, those who do are often more sympathetic Wall Street.

Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic-Socialist, often touts her refusal to accept corporate donations and criticizes colleagues with close ties to the financial sector.

worth repeating.

34 posted on 01/15/2019 9:04:16 PM PST by plain talk
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To: goodnesswins

Actually she has an econ minor and it is from BU.


35 posted on 01/15/2019 9:04:32 PM PST by MSF BU
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To: MSF BU

Idiocracy writ documentary ,


36 posted on 01/15/2019 9:25:21 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MSF BU

Idiocracy writ documentary ,


37 posted on 01/15/2019 9:25:28 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: jazusamo

The International Astronomical Union was so impressed with her high school microbiology research project that they named an asteroid after her: “23238 Ocasio-Cortez”. Later, however, at Boston University, she veered away from science and rational thinking, serving as an intern at the local immigration office of Sen. Ted kennedy.
It was likely here that her eyes were widened after taking her first sips of the Kool Aid.


38 posted on 01/15/2019 9:45:35 PM PST by Thar U. Havit
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To: jazusamo

39 posted on 01/15/2019 10:17:43 PM PST by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: rlmorel
Looks like it's from:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/maxine_wants_revenge.html

40 posted on 01/16/2019 12:53:39 AM PST by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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