{"id":3203,"date":"2024-12-04T01:13:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T01:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-may-run-for-oversight-job\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T01:13:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T01:13:21","slug":"aoc-may-run-for-oversight-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-may-run-for-oversight-job\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC may run for Oversight job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is weighing a bid for the top Democratic position on the Oversight Committee, she told reporters Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m interested,\u201d she said in comments confirmed by a spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The outspoken progressive could run for the spot if it\u2019s vacated by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who\u2019s mounting a challenge against Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) for the top Democratic position on the Judiciary Committee. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who had run against Raskin for the job last Congress, declared his bid Tuesday. And Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) could also be in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest salvo in House Democrats\u2019 generational battle over the leadership of congressional committees.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.), the top Democrat on the Agriculture committee \u2014 who has been dogged by questions about his health and ability to lead the panel\u2019s Democrats \u2014 faces a strong challenge from Reps. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) and Jim Costa (D-Calif.). And Rep. Jared Huffman is running to succeed Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who announced Monday he wouldn\u2019t run again to lead the panel\u2019s Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is weighing a bid for the top Democratic position on the Oversight Committee, she told reporters Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019m interested,\u201d she said in comments confirmed by a spokesperson. The outspoken progressive could run for the spot if it\u2019s vacated by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who\u2019s mounting a challenge against Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}