“I am very grateful for the opportunity to sit on this committee as a freshman,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter.

Less than a month after being sworn in, Ocasio-Cortez has emerged as one of her party’s most prominent national figures, unafraid to use her Twitter account, and its more than 2 million followers, to drive an agenda — and agitate many on the political right. The 29-year-old socialist Democrat could now train that spotlight on banks such as Wells Fargo, which has spent years attempting to move beyond scandals about alleged consumer abuses.

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“I cannot stress how important this moment is. [Democrats] are putting members who rejected corporate campaign money on a committee overseeing Wall St.,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “It’s a huge win.”

The committee will be led by another progressive force, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who outlined a broad agenda on Wednesday, including legislation providing $13 billion to address homelessness, and establishing a first-of-its-kind subcommittee to examine diversity and inclusion in the financial services industry.

“I consider it a privilege to hold the gavel,” Waters said before a standing-room-only crowd at the Center for American Progress.

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Lawmakers will also revisit Mick Mulvaney’s year-long leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Waters, who is the first woman and the first African American to lead the committee. Mulvaney, President Trump’s acting chief of staff and White House budget director, has been criticized for severely weakening the agency while serving as its acting director.

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“While his time running the consumer bureau may be over, the time for accountability for his actions is about to begin,” Waters said.

Privately, banking industry executives and lobbyists have expressed mixed feelings about Waters’s leadership and Ocasio-Cortez’s short, but already convincing, record of driving public conversations.

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While Waters is a well-known figure who has served on the committee for more than 20 years and developed a reputation for bipartisan dealmaking, Ocasio-Cortez’s legislative style is still unknown, they say. Big banks have already largely given up on securing significant new regulatory relief through Congress until after the 2020 presidential election, but being repeatedly hauled before the Financial Services Committee could still produce embarrassing headlines and lengthy investigations.

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Ocasio-Cortez’s “political clout may be significant and growing, but it pales [in] comparison with” that of Waters and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jaret Seiberg, financial services analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group, wrote in a research note Wednesday. Warren serves on the Senate Banking Committee and has announced a run for president.

While laying out her agenda, Waters said there would be several hearings aimed at whether the financial industry is being held accountable for its actions and the need for tough regulations. But she also said many issues tackled by the committee could find bipartisan support.

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“Throughout my career, I have looked for opportunities to build consensus,” she said, noting that she and the committee’s ranking Republican, Rep. Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina, have already discussed co-sponsoring legislation.

In addition to Ocasio-Cortez, the committee is also expected to add several other new progressive members, including Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), according to Bloomberg News. Porter studied under Warren at Harvard Law School and Tlaib is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.

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“If you take a look at our new committee, you will see that it is diverse, we have a lot of new people on the committee,” Waters said. “They know many of these issues and they are prepared to fight for our families.”

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On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez credited activists and grass-roots organizers with helping her secure a spot on the committee. The panel, she said, has been known as one of the “money committees.” That is not because they oversee money, she said, but because lawmakers “can fundraise from special interests by sitting on it and giving corporations a listening ear.”