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House Rejects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Proposal to Ban Military Recruitment on Twitch

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted against the passage of an amendment spearheaded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that would bar the United States military from recruiting via game streaming site Twitch.Ocasio-Cortez brought the amendment to a vote as part of the H.R. 7617 Department of Defense Appropriations Act. The House voted to block the amendment, with 292 votes against compared to 126 in support of it.The amendment came after a July 15 report in The Nation that detailed the