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Ousted congressman donates papers to Queens College

Image The archive includes a copy of the Affordable Care Act and a note from Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Credit... Annie Tummino/Queens College

The Times’s Luis Ferré Sadurní reports:

It’s been more than six months since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat Joe Crowley in an upset that shook the Democratic establishment.

As he considers new job opportunities (video-game industry lobbyist, perhaps?), Mr. Crowley, 56, has been busy clearing out his desk.

Today, he will donate his congressional and personal archives to Queens College, his alma mater.

The 15-box collection, which will be made available for research, includes a copy of the Affordable Care Act, along with a pen used to sign it and a handwritten note from Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Other highlights include the proclamation of Assemblyman Joseph Crowley Day in Queens — signed by Claire Shulman when she was the borough president — and the championship belt from a 2014 boxing competition in Washington. (Mr. Crowley was not the victor of the belt, but a supporter of the charity event, held to support at-risk youth.)

The donation will take place at the college’s Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library at 11 a.m.

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