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WASHINGTON ― Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is considering a run for the top Democratic spot on a high-profile House committee.
The progressive icon told HuffPost on Wednesday that she might like to replace Rep. Jamie Raskin as the highest-ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, which led the impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden this year.“I’m interested, and I’m certainly having a lot of conversations with my colleagues about it, and I’ve been receiving a lot of outreach about it in the caucus as well,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Ocasio-Cortez, 35, is one of the youngest members of Congress, and it would signal a small but significant generational power shift for Democrats if they made her a committee leader. Raskin is leaving the ranking member position on the oversight committee to pursue the same spot on the House judiciary committee, which heRaskin, Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats on the House oversight committee fiercely battled Republicans in their effort to impeach Biden, which was ultimately unsuccessful and was even mocked by one Republican as “failure theater.
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