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Ed Markey, AOC Reintroduce The Green New Deal

Ed Markey, AOC Reintroduce The Green New Deal

It didn't pass in the last Congress and no one voted for it when it came up for a vote in the U.S. Senate, but the Green New Deal is back. U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is once again the lead sponsor for it in the U.S. Senate, while self-described democratic socialist U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is its lead sponsor in the U.S. House of Representatives.

It didn't pass in the last Congress and no one voted for it when it came up for a vote in the U.S. Senate, but the Green New Deal is back. U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is once again the lead sponsor for it in the U.S. Senate, while self-described democratic socialist U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is its lead sponsor in the U.S. House of Representatives.…