Freshman Democrats in Congress ready to use new-won power

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Incoming members of the Democratic Party’s new U.S. House majority say they’re ready to turn the energy of their campaigns into real power on Capitol Hill.
Rep.-elects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and a handful of other liberal-leaning incoming Democrats used an orientation event for freshman lawmakers sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics to stake out some of their top issues &mda