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.
Maybe she can make them put pictures of people of color and LGBT people on money instead of old white men.
Weimar Republic value gay dollar
She’s gonna need a bigger tip jar.
Why not. Seems the people who did it in he past weren’t too swift. Maybe she’ll make a huge mistake, and do something right.
Yeah, I know... never gonna happen.
This woman would put a pencil in her left hand and her right hand index finger in the pencil sharpener, to sharpen it.
LOL, thank you...I should hang my head in tech shame...:)
I guess I should use Google for more than finding cat videos!
They are going to try and nationalize the financial services industry. Wait and see.
Yes, but she is smarter than Maxine Waters, so there...
No worries, I was interested in saving this awesome news article about corrupt Maxine, anyway!! :)
Yep, typical Hill liberal slant, they just can’t help themselves.
LOL! Then the tip of her right index finger would match the top of her head.
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