Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) announced on Dec. 6 that she is running to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, being the second one to throw her hat in the ring to succeed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).
In a letter to Democrat colleagues, Ocasio-Cortez, who has represented New York’s 14th Congressional District since January 2019, said that being the committee’s ranking member is “not a position I seek lightly” and that the role is “consequential” with President-elect Donald Trump back in the White House.
