Ocasio Cortez Green New Deal Speech Transcript

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) read the Green New Deal resolution in full in a House floor speech Wednesday. (Photo: C-SPAN/screenshot) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor Wednesday to call out some of her Republican colleagues for failing to read the Green New Deal resolution she introduced over a year ago—and then.

1. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went off during a House Financial Services Committee meeting after Rep. Sean Duffy mocked the effort of the 'Green New Deal' as.
2. Democratic leaders all but killed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ’s push for a select committee on a Green New Deal on Thursday, essentially returning to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ’s original plan to appoint a party stalwart to chair a revived global warming panel. Activists said Thursday they’d continue the fight.
3. Ocasio-Cortez’s plan further claims it will (virtually) eliminate poverty: “The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall recognize that a national, industrial, economic mobilization of this scope and scale is a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the United States and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation.”.
4. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took credit Wednesday for President Biden's newly-unveiled $2 trillion set of environmental policies, which include eliminating coal, oil and natural gas as.

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