Friday, May 31st 2019, 12:32 pm
Teamwork makes the dream work, the saying goes, and the latest burgeoning partnership in Congress certainly seems like one that might only happen in a dream. Conservative Sen. Ted Cruz and liberal firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say they're teaming up to drain the swamp.
The unlikely pair share the popular opinion that Washington is corrupt, and needs to be reformed.
On Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted an analysis by Public Citizen which found that nearly 60% of former members of the previous Congress who have taken jobs outside of politics -- including Ocasio-Cortez's predecessor, Joe Crowley -- are now working as lobbyists or influencing policy in some way. Certain laws prevent members of Congress from lobbying for a certain period of time, but they are loosely enforced.
"If you are a member of Congress + leave, you shouldn't be allowed to turn right around&leverage your service for a lobbyist check," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. "I don't think it should be legal at ALL to become a corporate lobbyist if you've served in Congress. At minimum there should be a long wait period."
Cruz then replied to Ocasio-Cortez's proposal, writing in his own tweet: "Here's something I don't say often: on this point, I AGREE with @AOC."
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Cruz then replied to Ocasio-Cortez's proposal, writing in his own tweet: \"Here's something I don't say often: on this point, I AGREE with @AOC.\"
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