{"id":8711,"date":"2025-05-01T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-says-she-is-weighing-a-bid-to-lead-house-oversight-democrats-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:21:30","slug":"aoc-says-she-is-weighing-a-bid-to-lead-house-oversight-democrats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-says-she-is-weighing-a-bid-to-lead-house-oversight-democrats-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC says she is &#8216;weighing&#8217; a bid to lead House Oversight Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday she is considering a run for House Democrats&#8217; top position on the Oversight Committee.  &#8220;It&#8217;s something that I&#8217;m weighing, but the seat is not yet vacated, and I think that&#8217;s a bridge we can cross when we get to it,&#8221; she told reporters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/30\/congress\/aoc-ocasio-cortez-weighing-oversight-bid-00319913\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday she is considering a run for House Democrats&#8217; top position on the Oversight Committee. &#8220;It&#8217;s something that I&#8217;m weighing, but the seat is not yet vacated, and I think that&#8217;s a bridge we can cross when we get to it,&#8221; she told reporters&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","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=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}