Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Pelosi's Climate Crisis Committee is too weak

Published January 1, 2019 2:18am ET



The special committee on climate change Democrats plan to have next year is too weak according to Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

In a flurry of tweets on New Year’s Eve, Ocasio-Cortez said she approved of the committee’s establishment, but lamented how fellow Democrats deemed three proposals she championed for a “New Green Deal Committee” to be “too controversial.”

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