Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s pet project, the Green New Deal, was predictably put down after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., brought the measure up for a vote to find out where Democrats stand on the resolution.

During a House Financial Services Committee markup on Tuesday of several bills, Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., responded to a Republican member’s criticism of her resolution as being “elitist” and shifted the blame on Republicans for not taking climate change seriously enough.