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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Ami Bera (CA-06), and U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) reintroduced their bicameral Affordability is Access Act.
Funding is a $161 million increase from the Water Resources Development Act of 2024
The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would ban corporations and private equity from owning physicians.
The bill is modeled on the landmark Oregon law that physicians have already used to successfully challenge corporate takeovers.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) strongly opposed a bill at an Energy and Commerce Full Committee Markup that would prevent policies or enforcement of engine idling restrictions under 15 minutes for buses, and eradicate a program that lets residents report idling they see in their own neighborhoods, directly targeting New York City.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) and Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-07) released the following statement regarding the ongoing water crisis in Puerto Rico:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03), and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reintroduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, landmark housing legislation which would rebuild the United States’ public housing stock, address the longstanding capital backlog, and create thousands of union jobs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), alongside Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) and Congresswoman Terri Sewell (AL-07), led 52 of their House Democratic colleagues in urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) highlighted the need to address the real harms and public health impacts of data centers during an Energy and Commerce Full Committee Markup.
Find Representative Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks as delivered below:
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) highlighted the need to develop more stringent standards in the U.S. pharmaceutical patent system to avoid the over-patenting of brand-name drugs during a hearing in the Health Subcommittee of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.