(House Television via AP) In this image from video, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks on the House floor, July 23. Ocasio-Cortez's objections to a Republican lawmaker's verbal assault on her expanded Thursday as she and other Democrats took to the House floor to demand an end to a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women.” Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., is seated right.