{"id":8866,"date":"2025-05-05T23:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-wont-seek-top-oversight-committee-post\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T23:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:16:45","slug":"aoc-wont-seek-top-oversight-committee-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-wont-seek-top-oversight-committee-post\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC won\u2019t seek top Oversight Committee post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday she won\u2019t seek the top Democratic position on the Oversight Committee, citing the caucus\u2019 preference for seniority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt\u2019s actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary, so I believe I\u2019ll be staying put at Energy and Commerce,\u201d the New York progressive told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly\u2019s decision to step aside as the top Democrat on the high-profile panel for health reasons has kicked off a quiet scramble to succeed him. Ocasio-Cortez had been seen as a potential candidate after coming up short in a bid for the top Oversight job last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday she won\u2019t seek the top Democratic position on the Oversight Committee, citing the caucus\u2019 preference for seniority. \u201dIt\u2019s actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary, so I believe I\u2019ll be staying [&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-8866","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\/8866","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=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}