AOC
AOC’s full name
What is Alexandria Ocasi–Cortez?
First ______-American to represent Minnesota in the United States Congress.
What is Somali?
This legislation (name) authorizes $5 billion for the Emergency Solutions Grants program to enable state and local governments to finance housing and health-related services for the hundreds of thousands of people currently experiencing homelessness, including the acquisition of hotels and motels to serve as transitional and permanent supportive housing.
What is Emergency Homelessness Assistance Act?
Passed the ____________ Act to stop water shutoffs, require water reconnection, and aid families suffering due to limited water access.
What is Emergency Water is a Human Right?
_______ made history by becoming the First African-American woman in the U.S. to become a neurosurgeon AND she did it at the age of 26.
Who/What is Dr. Alexa Canady?
The _______ which would expand existing civil rights law to make discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender-identity illegal. As the ______ to the Congressional Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Representative Ocasio-Cortez is dedicated to ensuring equal rights and protections for the LGBTQIA+ community across the nation.
What is Equality Act? (.5)
What is Vice Chair? (.5)
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) sponsored two amendments that passed in the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act. The first amendment requires the _________ to submit a report to Congress that identifies any existing fossil fuel production subsidies not eliminated in the bill and a quantification of the costs to taxpayers of such subsidies. The second amendment, based on the ________ that Rep. Omar introduced last year, creates a federal grant program to help local governments invest in waste reduction initiatives that will create jobs, grow domestic manufacturing, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect our communities from health hazards, save energy, and further grow our economy
What is the Secretary of the Treasury? (.5)
What is the Zero Waste Act? (.5)
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) re-introduced the __________ (name) – a comprehensive, decarceration-focused resolution that outlines a framework for a fair, equitable and just legal system. The resolution calls for an ongoing and participatory “peoples process” that centers the dignity and expertise of those impacted by the broken carceral state.
What is People’s Justice Guarantee?
Introduced the Justice for All Act, historic legislation that pushes back against decades of ________ to restore the original intent of our civil rights laws.
What is conservative court rulings?
The first licensed African-American female ______ was Bessie Coleman. She learned to _____ in France in June of 1921.
What is pilot? What is fly?
In June of 2019, Representative Ocasio-Cortez joined her House of Representatives colleagues to successfully pass the __________. This bill would provide a pathway to citizenship to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children (known as ______) and many immigrants with temporary humanitarians protections.
What is American Dream and Promise Act of 2019? (.5)
What is DREAMers? (.5)
The _________, a critical bill to provide 22 million kids with federally subsidized school lunches during the coronavirus pandemic, was signed into law as part of Families First Coronavirus Response Act. This legislation provided USDA grant waivers to ensure our students are fed.
What is the MEALS Act?
The _________ would support the creation of mental health first responder units that would be deployed in lieu of law enforcement when 911 is called because an individual is in a mental health crisis.
What is the Mental Health Justice Act?
Her first bill passed in Congress was the __________ putting an end to fraudulent scams targeting vulnerable retirees and their pensions.
What is Payee Fraud Prevention Act?
Frankie M Freeman, a noted attorney and 14th National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., was the first woman appointed to the ________________ by _____________.
What is the Civil RIghts Commission? (.5)
What/Who is Lyndon B. Johnson? (.5)
Representative Ocasio-Cortez supports common-sense gun reform with the goal of eliminating gun violence and saving lives. That is why she has consistently called for a ______ on assault weapons, high capacity magazines, and bump stocks.
What is federal ban?
She co-sponsored and passed _________ (name) to end the dominance of corporations in politics and increase participation in our democracy
What is For the People Act?
As ____________, Congresswoman Pressley has fought to protect comprehensive reproductive health care for all, including abortion care. In May 2019, she introduced a resolution to reaffirm Congress’s support for the landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, and an individual’s constitutional right to exercise their reproductive autonomy.
What is Chair of the Abortion Rights & Access Task Force of the Pro-Choice Caucus?
Led 111 House colleagues in a historic $305 billion funding push for ______ in the wake of the pandemic.
What is K-12 schools?
Before becoming the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Sadie T.M. Alexander was the first woman to earn ___________.
What is PhD in economics? (Full points)
PhD (half).
Representative Ocasio-Cortez supports extending tax benefits to working and middle-class homeowners, expanding the _________, and permanently funding the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
What is Low Income Housing Tax Credit?
Rep. Ilhan Omar joined other representatives and Members of the Black Maternal Health Caucus in introducing the _________________. The historic legislation will save moms’ lives, end racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes, and achieve maternal health justice for Black women and all women birthing people of color.
What is the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021?
Full points for name and year.
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joined others and introduced the ___________ of 2021, transformative legislation that would guarantee health care to everyone in America as a human right at a moment in which nearly 100 million people are uninsured or underinsured during a pandemic.
What is Medicare for All Act?
Named Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on ________ within the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
What is Environment?
_______ was the first African-American woman elected into Congress.
What/Who is Shirley Chisholm?