Hakeem Jeffries actually said...

"There is still a need, I think, for legislation to deal with the common sense measures that would help deal with the gun violence problem in this country."

"I represent a district largely anchored in Brooklyn that increasingly has become home to technology and innovation companies, particularly a significant number of startups and tech entrepreneurs."

"I think this is such an important hearing and an issue that we need to address thoroughly, comprehensively, but also deliberately here in the Congress."

"And we lost approximately 600,000 jobs during that 8-year period."