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Congress has approved nine out of ten funding requests for community projects put forward by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), the congresswoman’s office confirmed on July 30. The various requests for the 2022 fiscal year included additional funding for Jacobi Hospital’s anti gun-violence initiative which Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, and U.S.
Democrats in Congress introduced legislation Thursday to get the ball rolling on determining Puerto Rico's future status, including possible statehood, and its relationship with the mainland.
Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Carolyn Maloney (AP)
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NEW YORK — The Big Apple’s two members of the so-called “squad” are co-sponsoring a new “Medicare For All” bill that was introduced in Congress this week, but so are several other members of the tri-state area’s Congressional delegated.
The man known as “Roaring Kitty,” the YouTube personality who helped spark last month’s frenzy over GameStop stock, was buttoned down for Thursday’s congressional hearing into the unprecedented market rally.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday criticized President Joe Biden for his opposition to a progressive push to wipe out $50,000 in student loan debt for borrowers, saying that his argument against it "is looking shakier by the day."
Joe Biden will enter office facing a humanitarian catastrophe unlike any in modern times. Covid-19 is still ravaging the country and the economic fallout remains severe: On top of the lost jobs and closed businesses, an eviction crisis is looming.
An eviction moratorium has staved off the crisis, but it will eventually expire. When it does, a crushing housing emergency could descend on America — as many as 40 million Americans will be in danger of eviction.
Several progressive members of the House Democratic Caucus joined a livestreamed conversation on health care reform on Wednesday and attacked what they said was widespread greed and fraud in the pharmaceutical and health care industries.
New York. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared some of her secrets to staying organized and prepared during congressional hearings in an Instagram storyMonday — and they are techniques anyone can use.
Advocates working to deconstruct police brutality and anti-Black racism have long called to defund the police, and in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, David McAtee and many other Black people by police, the concept has become a rallying cry among protestors. Activists and community organizations define defunding the police as moving public funds away from policing and incarceration, and investing instead in community resources.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has brokered a deal with a key block of Democrats that threatened to derail passage of her sweeping bill overhauling drug prices.
Pelosi met late Tuesday with Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Mark Pocan, D-Wis., co-leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The caucus said the legislation didn’t go far enough and was threatening to oppose it on the House floor when it is voted on later this week.