In an ambitious bipartite effort, the two seemingly opposed legislators found common ground when they disapproved of former congressional members exerting influence in the government's new lobbying careers.
"I do not think it's ALL legal to become a business lobbyist if you've served in Congress," she added. "At a minimum, there should be a long wait period."
Cruz then retweeted the New York Democrat's statement, saying that he agreed with it, adding that "the swamp would hate that".
"That's something I do not say often: on this point, I ACCEPT with @AOC," he said.
tweeted. "Indeed, I have long been asking for a lifetime ban on former members of Congress to become lobbyists.The swamp hate this, but perhaps a chance for bipartite cooperation?"
Ocasio-Cortez told the Texas Republican that if the bill only concerned lobbying, she would be spearheading the effort with it.
"@ tedcruz if you're serious about a clean bill, then I'm down. Let's make a deal," she
tweeted. "If we can agree on a bill without partisan clauses, poison pills, etc. – just ban members of Congress altogether so that they become paid lobbyists." – Then I will lead the bill with you. "
Cruz answered, "You are safe."
Shortly after, Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas and Democrat Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii – potential bipartisan sponsors of legislation in both houses of Congress – announced their presence.
"Happy to lead or co-sponsor in the House, @AOC and @tedcruz", Roy
tweeted,
add that his staff was reaching for his. "Let's do that."
Schatz
tweeted simply, "IN."
Ocasio-Cortez highlighted the quick answers as a sign of more sponsors coming up.
"And this is only in a few hours – there will surely be more people on both sides to sign in. Nice," she tweeted.
CNN has solicited the offices of Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz, Roy and Schatz for their comments.
The decision of lawmakers to join forces after the usual partisan clashes, because Cruz has been attacking Ocasio-Cortez in the past. The senator criticized the Green New Deal, the plan proposed by Ocasio-Cortez to fight against climate change, as "
extreme"and mocked to get"
ZERO votes. "
Their last Twitter quarrel, however, was about something even more unique than politics: croissants.
In April, Ocasio-Cortez
lamented how "croissants at LaGuardia are going to get SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE … Yet some people think that receiving an entire hour of personal and dedicated human work for $ 15 is too expensive ??"
Cruz responded with a brushstroke to the socialist tendencies of the member,
tweeting"Oh, humanity! Here is the answer: FREE GROWERS FOR ALL imposed by the government.And we will just oblige bakers to give all their time for free. #SocialistLogic #AprilFools"
Ocasio-Cortez seemed to address Cruz in his general reply, accusing his Republican detractors of not having understood his argument.
"GOP takes every tweet so seriously, arguing its point for me.This is not an argument against the price of a croissant – it's about the value of human value", she says.
tweeted. "But I guess this idea is foreign to them because their policies treat people as disposable anyway."
