A black Democratic lawmaker has a bone to pick with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “singling out of newly elected women of color.”

Rep. Lacy Clay of Missouri told Fox News that the Democratic representative from New York, in addition to other liberal Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts “have to learn to be effective legislators.”

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