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AOC launches bid for 'profound and consequential' role as top Dem on House Oversight panel (www.rawstory.com)

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Hoping to help lead a congressional panel that could be in a position to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable to the American public in the coming years, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday notified her colleagues that she is officially seeking the top Democratic seat on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

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[–] millifoo@lemmings.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

What do you suggest our represenatives do as an alternative? Give up? Say and do nothing for 4 years?

As painful and exasperating of a job it's going to be, we still need idealists like AOC to go and do their best, even while in the minority.