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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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Nov 3, 2021

There is no incest exception in the Texas so-called statute, is that correct?

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Nov 3, 2021

The killing of a baby for the crimes of his or her father is never justice. In fact, that's injustice.

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Nov 3, 2021

Part of the challenge that many of us have with this current extreme, right-wing Supreme Court is that, engineered by Mitch McConnell, he stole, not one, but two Supreme Court Justices--one from President Obama and the other from President…

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Nov 3, 2021

Under the Texas abortion ban, someone who misses that six-week window would be forced to carry their pregnancy to term, even if they were raped, is that correct?

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Oct 21, 2021

I thank the distinguished gentleman and chair of the Rules Committee for yielding and for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, the House is a separate and coequal branch of government. We are the institution that is closest to the people. The…

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Oct 20, 2021

In the aftermath of the January 6th insurrection, instead of running toward democracy, there are people throughout this country, some, have run away from democracy and they've unleashed an epidemic of voter suppression across the land.

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Oct 20, 2021

Despite the fact that there's no evidence of so-called fraud, this year at least 19 States have enacted 33 laws making it harder for everyday Americans to vote.

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Oct 20, 2021

Joe Biden we know is a legitimate president of the United States of America.

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Oct 20, 2021

The Department of Justice should be able to use Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to undermine or invalidate voting rights suppression laws that have a disparate impact on certain groups such as African-Americans, Latinos, immigrant…

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Oct 20, 2021

There are only two options at this point. We could either allow the voter suppression epidemic that has been launched by Republicans in the aftermath of the violent insurrection and attack on the Capitol to spread like wildfire, or we…

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Oct 20, 2021

As FAA implements the Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act, I am concerned about how difficult it is going to be to get Boeing to improve its safety culture.

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Oct 7, 2021

Donald Trump`s behavior continues to make Richard Nixon look like a choir boy. And there is no bottom. There never will be. That is how corrupt this particular individual who used to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is and how much he has…

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Oct 7, 2021

We can`t really have a functional economy. We can`t really have a functional society that takes care of the needs, the hopes, the dreams, the aspirations of the American people if democracy breaks down.

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Oct 7, 2021

I suspect we`re going to get these two transformative pieces of legislation over the finish line. And then we`ll have to deal with the debt ceiling that now will expire on December 3rd in tandem and I expect that`s what we`re going to do.

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Sep 28, 2021

I thank the distinguished chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler, for yielding, and for his extraordinary leadership in moving this important piece of legislation forward. Mr. Speaker, I also thank Kelly Armstrong, who is the…

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Sep 27, 2021

Well, Mitch McConnell has no shame. The reality is that the debt ceiling first and foremost is not a forward-looking vehicle where we are raising the debt ceiling, so we can acquire additional debt for things that we would work on into the…

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Sep 24, 2021

I thank the distinguished chair for yielding and for his leadership in advancing this incredibly important issue. America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but we cannot truly be a free country unless women have the…

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Sep 20, 2021

We don`t need Republican votes in the House. And we expect that they`re going to be irresponsible in the House, even though the Republicans in this chamber and the Republicans across the Capitol three times during the Trump administration…

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Sep 20, 2021

We have a broken immigration system. It needs to be fixed. The preference will be able to do in the bipartisan way but the Republicans have turned into a xenophobic party that continues to bend the knee to Donald Trump and his hate-filled…

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Sep 20, 2021

That`s what Mr. McConnell is saying. But I think that his friends on Wall Street and the wealthy and the well-off across the country do not want to see a default in the Stock Market and the economy crashing.

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Sep 20, 2021

This is a high-stakes situation, which is why we shouldn`t be infusing politics into the debt ceiling.

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Sep 20, 2021

I disagree with the extension of any policy related to the excuse that was put forward by President Trump, inspired by Stephen Miller designed to just keep people out of America.

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Sep 20, 2021

The Border Patrol agents are totally out of control. And I think it`s the White House themselves acknowledge those images are horrific.

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Sep 16, 2021

Kevin McCarthy is all about the acquisition of power. That`s it. There is no ideology. There is no policy concerns. There`s no effort to try to improve the lives of everyday Americans to work with us as Democrats to crush the virus or…

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Sep 16, 2021

And in the case of Mitch McConnell, that’s to jam right-wing Supreme Court justices down the throats of the American people to take us back to the dark ages.

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