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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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Sep 16, 2021

It doesn`t matter that he sparked a violent insurrection and attack on the Capitol that was an extraordinary event in American history and is dangerous.

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Sep 16, 2021

I think Paul Ryan is fundamentally a good man. I disagree with him on policy, and clearly he had some challenges with Trump, could have done much more to articulate that publicly.

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Sep 16, 2021

But right now, you have a House Republican leader in Kevin McCarthy who is a wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump.

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Sep 16, 2021

The challenge that the Republicans have had is that they accepted Donald Trump for who he was and continues to be in part because of the desire for the acquisition and maintenance of raw power to accomplish their own policy objectives.

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Sep 16, 2021

In the case of Paul Ryan, that’s cutting taxes for the wealthy, the well off, and the well connected.

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Sep 16, 2021

Well, it’s extraordinary, but the challenge in dealing with Donald Trump is that not only is he a malignant narcissist, but he of course is a psychopath and a pathological liar at the same time.

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Aug 31, 2021

We have said consistently that we are committed to a parallel track approach.

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Aug 31, 2021

Well, it`s good to be on, Joy. We`re in this situation because the Supreme Court has, in this space, as they have done most recently with reproductive freedoms, issued an irresponsible decision or taken an irresponsible action.

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Aug 31, 2021

Republicans have concluded that they can no longer win elections democratically. And so they engage in voter suppression, they steal Supreme Court seats, and then they legislate from the bench.

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Aug 31, 2021

We stand behind our legislation aggressively. And we`re going to continue to fight for working families, middle-class folks, those who aspire to be part of the middle class, and, certainly, the poor, the sick, the afflicted, the least, the…

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Aug 25, 2021

Those who worship at the altar of voter suppression will fail. Those who worship at the altar of Jim Crow-like oppression will fail. Those who worship at the altar of turning back the clock to make America hate again will fail. We`re not…

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Aug 24, 2021

How dare Republicans come to this floor and lecture America about masks and liberty over and over again while at the same time undermining the precious right to vote? Free and fair elections are central to our liberty, and we are not going…

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Aug 23, 2021

As Democrats, we`re all on the same page in terms of substance. We just need to figure out what the highest common denominator is going to be as it relates to process so we can get both of these things done.

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Aug 23, 2021

Right now, the most important thing is that we should all be falling in behind Kathy Hochul, our soon-to-be governor, supporting her because her success will be the success of the people of New York state.

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Aug 23, 2021

It`s my sense that the overwhelming majority of members certainly support a parallel track approach. We want to make sure we get the bipartisan infrastructure deal done. At the same time, we want to make sure that the budget reconciliation…

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Aug 17, 2021

Because Republicans have committed to voter suppression as an electoral strategy, and they are bankrupt of substantive ideas in so many areas, we know that we`ve got to deal with this issue in order to preserve our democracy.

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Aug 17, 2021

We can never allow something like that to ever happen again.

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Aug 17, 2021

We certainly cannot allow these bills to die in the Senate at this critical moment for our democracy. At the end of the day, the very integrity of our democracy depends on the unfettered right to vote which we know is under intense assault.

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Aug 1, 2021

It appears that it's very unlikely that the Senate will be able to move on extending the moratorium the Republicans, of course, blocked it in the House.

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Aug 1, 2021

The Biden administration... is putting the pressure on the states and localities to do something about that.

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Aug 1, 2021

We're focused and unified around the need for the states and localities to get the more than $40 billion in relief that we allocated in the American Rescue Plan out to landlords and tenants.

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Jul 28, 2021

Since the start of this once-in-a-century pandemic, Congress has acted decisively and passed legislative relief totaling $5.9 trillion; but our work is far from done, and we are obligated to ensure that relief aid arrived to the folks who…

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Jul 26, 2021

Is anyone else tired of hearing the insurrectionist in Chief continue to lie about the 2020 election? Over the weekend, once again, the former, twice-impeached, disgraced, so-called President of the United States of America, falsely…

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Jul 11, 2021

So, I just think that, obviously, qualifications are paramount in terms of one's capacity to be able to evaluate the cases that come before an Article III Federal Court.

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Jul 11, 2021

the Federal bench should seemingly reflect the 'many' the Framers of the Constitution thought was important to the country in the broadest possible way--race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, region, yes, ideology, and also life…

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