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AOC, Fellow Freshmen Dem Reps Go Looking For McConnell, Run Into Some Problems

John Bickley

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and some of her fellow freshmen self-styled “activist” Democrat representatives spent part of Wednesday afternoon in a political stunt that ended up having some unexpected twists and turns.

Determined not to be constrained by congressional decorum, AOC and her team of charged-up freshmen reps marched over to the Senate side of the Capitol, eager reporters in tow, to hand deliver a letter signed by over 30 freshmen House Democrats to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanding that he call for the vote on a bill to end the longest partial government shutdown in history.

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