I visited Japan last year and met with the heads of their bullet train system to answer this exact question!
If we had a Shinkansen-style rail system, maybe 1-2 hours? MagLev would be even faster.
We do need to figure out land use because people fight over that & HSR requires straight lines/routes

Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|New York District 14
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Voting Record — 496
Yes37%
No59%
Present0%
Not Voting4%
Party align97%
Cross-party0%
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratNew York District 14
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I don’t know! Couldn’t disagree more on this one and I voted NO.
We helped flip over 35 Dems to a NO from the last time this vote was held but there were several outstanding.
On the Amtrak, let’s do an Ask me Anything!
Drop your questions below and I’ll answer what I can ⬇️
Thank you for this leadership.
One thing I’ve seen is that while many people seek digital spaces for conversations, it’s also an easy place to speak in ways we never would in person.
We can’t afford to turn on one another. We must practice (big!) disagreement while remaining a community. Thank you
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Are drafts a thing here yet
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Stating the obvious here but if this report cleared Gaetz’s name, they’d eagerly release it in the name of “transparency”
Team Call Them Skeets reporting for duty 🫡
A lot of people responsible for poor decisions are on a press tour right now because if they didn’t, people would rightfully be questioning THEIR leadership and they know it.
It’s weak even by normal left-punching standards. Zero evidence more Liz Cheney would have won this. The opposite, actually.
First quote in this new @politico.com story is from RI's Dem committeeman Joe Paolino: "The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle” www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Thank you! It very well may have otherwise.
In comparison, a similar bill was brought up before the House earlier this year. There was much less organizing against it and it got further then.
Today’s vote was a very different story. The attention + organizing played a role.
If you can thank your rep for voting NO, please do so. It matters.
Was there today for the H.R. 9495 vote (bill that would have allowed labeling nonprofits as terrorist supporting organizations).
Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members.
I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.
The macro conditions matter. Sometimes you run the best possible campaign and still come up short.
But in a sea of hot takes, we should be prioritizing listening to leaders who had a solid ship. We still may have disagreements, but at least we know their operation was solid & come from that place
Yes yes yes. I have run a 24/7, 365 operation since I got elected. I have a permanent campaign HQ that rotates between off-year and on-year organizing.
People thought it was nuts when I first set it up. I said you’re setting yourself up for disaster if you only show up 6 mos before an election.
We also treat “the campaign” as if it’s something that occurs June-November. What the right knows and excels at is that the campaign exists every day, all year around. Dems need to do a better job of touting their legislative wins and bashing the gop for opposing popular bills that help real people.
It is.
But you have to know when + where it is effective and how to deploy it well. It’s not a silver bullet. A good campaign operator should know when and where it works + when to add other means.
Field isn’t everything but it is a TOOL. It can’t be used well if people don’t know how and when
I wish people were made to show receipts of their operations before casting blame.
How many doors did your team knock this cycle? This should be asked more.
Also a LOT of consultants get rich off Dem campaigns win/lose so there’s a huge financial incentive to blame others so they stay on payroll
I’m one of the few Dems in NYC who even RUNS a general election campaign, and the only one who ran a robust field op. We ran ahead of top of the ticket.
Excellence matters. A lot of folks w/ poor campaign fundamentals are now blaming “wokism” but haven’t held a town hall or knocked a door all cycle
The ironic thing about post election chatter is that a lot of the time it’s candidates who lost, underperformed, or underworked who have endless time to go on TV and share their blame story.
And for their part, journalists rarely EVER ask if that person actually ran a functionally solid campaign
Thank you! 🫡 happy to be back
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Voting History496 total votesExpandCollapse
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496 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-23 | H.R. 5587 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H.R. 6387 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H.R. 6387 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-22 | H.R. 4690 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H.R. 4690 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-22 | H. Res. 1182 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H. Res. 1189 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H. Res. 1189 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-21 | S. 1020 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-21 | H.R. 2493 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-21 | H.R. 5201 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-20 | H.R. 5200 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-20 | H.R. 1681 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-17 | H. Res. 1175 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-17 | H. Res. 1175 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-17 | H. Res. 1175 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H. Res. 1156 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 1689 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H. Res. 965 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 6398 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 6398 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 6409 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 6409 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-16 | H. Con. Res. 40 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-15 | H. Res. 965 (119th) | Motion to Discharge | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-15 | H. Res. 1174 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-15 | H. Res. 1174 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-14 | H.R. 7613 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-14 | H.R. 1011 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-28 | H. Res. 1142 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-28 | H. Res. 1142 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-28 | — | Motion to Adjourn | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-27 | H.R. 7084 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-26 | H.R. 8029 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-26 | H.R. 8029 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-26 | H. Res. 1128 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-25 | H.R. 5103 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-25 | H.R. 5103 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-25 | H. Res. 1131 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-25 | H. Res. 1131 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-24 | H.R. 6422 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-19 | H.R. 4638 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-18 | H.J. Res. 139 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-18 | H.R. 1958 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-18 | H.R. 556 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-18 | H.R. 556 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-17 | H. Res. 1115 (119th) | Approve resolution | NOT_VOTING | NO | — | Passed |
| 2026-03-17 | H. Res. 1115 (119th) | End debate now | NOT_VOTING | NO | — | Passed |
| 2026-03-17 | S. 3971 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2026-03-17 | H.R. 4294 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.
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