Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is experiencing an unusual level of difficulty in fulfilling one of the simplest of tasks for a representative: remembering which colored pen she voted with in Congress. After casting her vote on a life-changing piece of legislation, Ocasio-Cortez searched her mind for several minutes, recognizing that the pen she used must have been a very important distinguishing factor.

"What was it...a blue one, a black one?" she asked, turning to a fellow Congressperson for help. "It was gold, right? Or maybe silver or copper? No wait, copper was the one she brought earlier. I'm sorry, I'm just having a hard time remembering these details," Ocasio-Cortez said to an increasingly exasperated fellow representative. After roughly 10 minutes of searching, her aide eventually brought her the correct pen and the issues was resolved.

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