{"id":8693,"date":"2025-04-30T22:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-says-she-is-weighing-a-bid-to-lead-house-oversight-democrats\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T22:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:50:53","slug":"aoc-says-she-is-weighing-a-bid-to-lead-house-oversight-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-says-she-is-weighing-a-bid-to-lead-house-oversight-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC says she is ‘weighing’ a bid to lead House Oversight Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday she is considering a run for House Democrats’ top position on the Oversight Committee. <\/p>\n

“It’s something that I’m weighing, but the seat is not yet vacated, and I think that’s a bridge we can cross when we get to it,” she told reporters. <\/p>\n

A star of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, Ocasio-Cortez has recently co-led a series of national rallies with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that has stoked speculation about her future as Democrats debate the best way to counter President Donald Trump. It’s unclear how a high-profile House leadership position might figure<\/a> into her political ambitions.<\/p>\n

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who beat Ocasio-Cortez in the race for Oversight Committee ranking member last year, announced earlier this week he would step aside from the position amid a battle with cancer. He appointed Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, a veteran Democratic lawmaker, to serve as an interim head in his absence. Lynch has indicated he would run to succeed Connolly. <\/p>\n

Younger members of the caucus have chafed at the party’s previous deference to seniority in choosing leaders, though Ocasio-Cortez, 35, has recently spoken carefully on the subject. <\/p>\n

“The party has its views known on seniority and its values on seniority, and I respect that,” she said Wednesday. “That’s the position of the caucus. So that’s something to be part of a larger conversation.” <\/p>\n

If Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t run, a number of young, ambitious members could mount bids including Reps. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Ro Khanna of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday she is considering a run for House Democrats’ top position on the Oversight Committee. “It’s something that I’m weighing, but the seat is not yet vacated, and I think that’s a bridge we can cross when we get to it,” she told reporters. A star of the Democratic Party’s progressive […]<\/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-8693","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\/8693","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=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}