Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib rip new Congress' 'corporate lobbyist group' event with Gary Cohn

"You guys are way over your head, you don't know how the game is played," warned Trump's former chief economic adviser.

FRANK DALE
DEC 7, 2018, 7:44 AM
UPDATED: DEC 7, 2018, 10:58 AM

Money playing a major role in politics is obviously not a ThinkProgress exclusive.

But amid all of the corruption and conflicts of interest that make headlines, there are countless other influences of money in the political world that don’t make themselves known unless you’re on the inside.

Well Reps.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who ran as outsider candidates, are now on the inside and making it clear that it won’t be business as usual in the new Congress.

During the ongoing orientation events for newly-elected members before they’re seated on January 3, Thursday featured the Harvard Bipartisanship Forum, what was apparently billed as a bipartisan event.

https://thinkprogress.org/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rashida-tlaib-house-democrats-gary-cohn-goldman-sachs-congress-2018-midterms-c8a3a89180ae/

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The Intercept’s Ryan Grim explained the thinking behind the congresswoman-elect’s strategy.

Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to go after a spot on the Ways and Means Committee is part of a broader strategy to grow progressive power in the coming Congress. It began with Congressional Progressive Caucus leaders Mark Pocan of Wisconsin and Pramila Jayapal of Washington state extracting a major concession from Pelosi, that in exchange for CPC votes, she would give the caucus proportional representation — which amounts to 40 percent — on the most powerful committees, which includes Ways and Means.


Hey, Cohn.......................do you still think they are over there collective heads.....................they know how the game is played...................and your part of the greed and the problems you cause.....................