The first performance of the youngest Congressman in US history Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the meeting of the house of representatives for a matter of hours became the most viewed on cable channel C-SPAN.
«For some 12 hours tweet C-SPAN speech Ocasio-Cortez became the most-viewed among our Twitter-videos of the speeches of the members of the house of representatives of both parties. Of 1.16 million,» said Thursday on Twitter’s Director of public relations C-SPAN Howard Mortman.
After the election in November to Congress 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which a year ago was working as a bartender in a coffee shop in new York, is under the constant eye of the media. Any statement or action becomes public. 3 Jan Ocasio-Cortez took the oath and officially became a member of Parliament. Now watch her 2.4 million followers on Twitter and 1.8 million in Instagram.
«In fact, we are not talking about the wall on the border and, of course, not about the welfare of ordinary Americans — said the Congresswoman in her first 3-minute speech. In reality, this shutdown is associated with the destruction of American democracy and undermining of our fundamental governmental standards.»
According to the young politician, the administration trump took hostage 800 thousand Federal employees, who receive no salary.
«Abnormally close to the government, when we don’t get what you want — said Ocasio-Cortez. And of course it’s not OK to starve people we serve, because of the extremely unpopular among American citizens proposal».
First House Floor speech from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC): “The truth of this shutdown is that it’s actually not about a wall…The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms.» pic.twitter.com/r8tmsGSNtT
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 17, 2019
By 8 a.m. on 18 January Twitter video watched almost 2.5 million times.
Also the representative of C-SPAN Howard Mortman noted that the most viewed video on Twitter from the Senate was questioning Brett Cavanaugh, which was conducted by Senator Kamala Harris in October of last year. During testimony, the then candidate member of the Supreme court was constantly crying and drank water. Video of the interrogation of gathered of 7.14 million views.
Today, January 18 is the 28th day of saltuna — the longest in U.S. history. The Democrats of Congress and the White house can not agree on the budget for this year. Trump continues to reject any option which is not provided $5.7 million for the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.
After the American leader because of the shutdown publicly canceled a secret visit Nancy Pelosi in Afghanistan, the situation in the higher echelons of power every day is heating up.
