Former Democratic New York Rep. Joe Crowley offered a bit of advice to new members of Congress during an exit interview with Vice News. "Don't come here thinking you're going to change the world overnight," he said.
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@AOC Highlights
Sworn in on at the age of 29 on January 3, becomes the youngest member of the 116th Congress.
Co-sponsored her first piece of legislation, H.R. 242, repealing the PAYGO Act on January 4. (Pay As You GO)
Her proposal to raise taxes on the rich to pay for the so-called "Green New Deal" proposal ended up on the cover of the January 5 issue of New York Daily News with the headline "Radical Solution."
Sat for an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired January 6 in which she said the super rich should be taxed more heavily after making $10 million, and that there's "no question" Trump is racist.
Search interest in "Green New Deal" reached its highest ever point on Google Trends the day after her "60 Minutes" interview.
Said Trump saying "Who cares?" when asked about her calling him racist proves she got under his skin, in a January 14 tweet.
Named to the House Financial Services Committee, which oversees things like banking and lending, which she announced on January 15.
Gave her first speech from the House floor on January 16, where she spoke about a constituent who missed a paycheck from the shutdown, and said the shutdown isn't about a wall or the border, but "the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms."
Her speech became C-SPAN's most-viewed Twitter video ever, with more than 3.34 million views.
She and other freshmen Democrats delivered a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on January 16 calling for an end to the shutdown a start a #WheresMitch social media campaign.
Spoke at a Women's March event in New York City on January 19.
Named to the House Oversight Committee, which can investigate the Trump administration, on January 22.
Surpassed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Twitter followers (@aoc vs. @SpeakerPelosi) her second day in office.
Posted her most retweeted tweet on January 4, a video of her dancing in front of her office, to poke fun at the video of her dancing in college that surfaced and was mocked following her swearing in. The new Twitter video received more than 20.7 million views and more than 160,000 retweets.
When asked by Stephen Colbert on the January 21 episode of "The Late Show" how many "f****" she gives about Democrats who've criticized her, she said, "zero" 💣