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Hakeem Jeffries

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Hakeem Sekou Jeffries is an American lawyer and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 8th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Jeffries has been an influential figure in the House of Representatives, serving as the House Democratic Caucus Chair since 2019. He is known for his advocacy on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and economic equity.

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Mar 28, 2022

None of the numbers we have talked about--the fastest decline in history, the employment rate, would have been possible without this President's management of the pandemic.

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Mar 28, 2022

I think most every day Americans would have no issue with increasing the taxes that 25 richest billionaires in America pay.

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Mar 28, 2022

Donald Trump is not a victim, despite what some of my colleagues from the other side of the aisle have endeavored to project. He is a perpetrator, a one-man walking crime spree.

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Mar 28, 2022

You know what socialism is, that is the GOP tax scam--83 percent of the benefits going to the wealthiest 1 percent.

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Mar 28, 2022

I'm sorry that you've been subjected to so much pro-Putin pro-insurrection pro-conspiracy rhetoric, as if Donald Trump is a victim, not the perpetrator of perhaps the most significant ongoing crime spree in the history of the American…

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Mar 28, 2022

Beginning with the American Rescue Plan, which not a single one of my Republican colleagues voted for in either the House or the Senate, that was the foundation for turning the economy around.

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Feb 15, 2022

as Representative Hoyer said, that Denmark has one, but that it is not binding.

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Feb 15, 2022

the GOP tax scam where 83 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 percent.

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Feb 15, 2022

Yet, despite opposing the 'GOP tax scam' and all the other reckless spending that is country was forced to absorb, Democrats in Congress voted to increase the debt ceiling three times because that is the responsible thing to do as Leader…

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Feb 15, 2022

as Representative Hoyer said, to allow Treasury more flexibility than they had in order to borrow money to keep the country rolling.

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Feb 10, 2022

The Grand Old Party has moved into a cult, where they just simply take orders and bend the knee from the cult leader, the twice impeached so-called president of the United States for America.

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Feb 10, 2022

That`s absolutely fake outrage. It was designed to undermine her candidacy and her potential opportunities to make a strongest possible case before the American people in that presidential campaign in 2016.

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Feb 10, 2022

Donald Trump was a one-man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the most corrupt president in American history who made Richard Nixon look like a choir boy.

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Feb 10, 2022

We are the party of jobs. They are the party of mobs.

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Feb 9, 2022

Who does Harold Rogers think he is? How dare he put his hands on anyone, man, woman or child? How dare he assault Joyce Beatty.

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Feb 9, 2022

The C in RNC doesn’t stand for committee, it stands for cult. It’s not the Republican National Committee. It is the Republican National Cult.

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Feb 8, 2022

The C in RNC doesn`t staffer committee, it stands for cult. It`s not the Republican National Committee. It`s the Republican national cult.

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Feb 7, 2022

I thank the distinguished chair of the House Judiciary Committee for yielding and for his leadership. I thank my good friend and colleague Representative Cheri Bustos for her leadership. The people of America, the women of America have a…

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Feb 2, 2022

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 902 Resolved, That the following named Member be, and is hereby, elected to…

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Feb 1, 2022

It takes a while for Congress to catch up. We finally did.

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Feb 1, 2022

I appreciate your presence here today because this is an issue I hadn't fully thought through.

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Feb 1, 2022

I'm just hopeful that similarly we can find a way to come together to address the changes in the landscape.

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Feb 1, 2022

I think clearly this is an issue that we have to work through in terms of the music landscape being changed.

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Jan 18, 2022

not as Democratic issues or Republican issues, but as American issues, to try to resolve on behalf of everyday Americans and the American consumer.

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Jan 16, 2022

Maya is exactly correct. And my Republican colleagues are talking out of both sides of their mouth. On the one hand, they want to elevate the life and legacy of Dr. King, but, on the other hand, they are denigrating his mission by failing…

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