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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a bomb-thrower. She’s a fighter. She’s an attack dog for the far left of the Democratic Party. She will hurl zinger at Republicans. She’ll also shoot inside the ship. Her fundraising and backing of primary challengers against members of her own party have long been a contentious subject for the party brass. In New York, her main enemy is not the Republicans, but the state Democratic Party. So, what of her legislative record? It’s bad. How bad? Think of the then-Baltimore Colts when they drafted John Elway back in 1983. Elway didn’t want to play for them for a simple reason: the franchise was a disaster. On the Hill, AOC has a knack for tossing bills against the wall. None of them stick, which is why a new study found that she’s one of the least effective members of Congress (via NY Post):
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the least effective members of the last Congress according to a new survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking — a joint project of Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.
AOC introduced a total of 21 bills which the center defined as “substantive” — but that is where the story ends. Her legislation received no action in committees, no floor votes, and none ever became law, according to the center, which takes its data from Congress.gov.
“She introduced a lot of bills, but she was not successful at having them receive any sort of action in committee or beyond committee and if they can’t get through committee they cannot pass the House,” Alan Wiseman, a Vanderbilt political scientist and co-director of the center, told The Post.
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