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.
Thanks to the Democrats we finally get to see kakistocracy in action.
Not the greatest representative of their University....
Bump!
From bartender to crème de la crème in a few months
What could possibly go wrong???
Not when they have 2.4 million followers on Twitter.
The rules have changed.
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
With mad max at the head, what more harm can this do? Certainly the entertainment value is maxed (npi) out.
An idiot economics major that knows nothing about it on a financial oversight committee? What could possibly go wrong.
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.
LOL (I’ve got nothin’ else)
“The rules have changed. “
We’ll see. Hillary and Obama could rise above their stations. Not sure that will happen in the House.
Wonder what they're smoking over at The Hill?
And who was responsible for the outstanding grammatical error in this sentence, Sylvan or Scott.
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.
Actually she has an econ minor and it is from BU.
Idiocracy writ documentary ,
Idiocracy writ documentary ,
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.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/maxine_wants_revenge.html
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