Waters, Ocasio-Cortez, and Democrats prepare to push Financial Services Committee into social issues

By Colin Wilhelm

Published January 17, 2019 5:00am ET

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House Democrats are poised to push the House Financial Services Committee into hot-button social issues.

With Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif, wielding the gavel and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and other progressive freshmen occupying the dais, the committee is set to intervene in new areas, such as monitoring diversity in companies’ hiring and — if Ocasio-Cortez has her way — scrutiny of investment in for-profit prisons.

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