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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.
Well, Mitch McConnell has a way of putting himself on full blast. And, once again, he`s done that. He`s done this in the past. He did it when he made clear that his top political objective was to make sure that Barack Obama was a one-term…
I think the American people definitely would prefer to see Democrats and Republicans working together whenever and wherever possible. And that’s exactly what Joe Biden has been trying to do and will continue to try to do.
Joe Biden recognizes that we have big problems in America. It’s a big moment for this country and it requires big solutions. And Joe Biden is not running away from the big solutions that are necessary. He’s running toward them and laying…
Republicans tried to convince the American people that we are competing against each other. That’s part of the effort to divide us. Joe Biden made it clear that we’re in this together.
The brand firms are actually filing these petitions, subsequently found to be almost always meritorious, and that results in the delay of lower cost generic drugs being brought to the market.
So, our view is that the Commission should be focused on the events of January 6th, the violent attack on the Capitol, the incitement of an insurrection, the perpetration of the big lie, and the role that it played in the radicalization…
We`re moving forward to try to arrive at common ground with the Republicans so we can form a bipartisan commission that can comprehensively study the events of January 6th.
We are going to get to the bottom of what happened. Hopefully, that will be through a 9/11 style commission. But we have majorities in the house in the Senate. We have subpoena power. We can conduct an independent congressional…
I thank the distinguished chair for his yielding and for his leadership. The foundational model of this country is e pluribus unum, out of many, one. It doesn't say out of many Europeans, one. It doesn't say out of many Anglo-Saxons, one…
Hopefully, beyond John Boehner, more Republican stateswomen and men will speak up and take their party back.
And Republicans are the party of Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the big lie, and the QAnon conspiracy theory -- that is not sustainable if we're going to have a legitimate two-party system.
Well, it is my hope that more Republicans will continue to speak up because right now, we're in a situation where Democrats from great leadership from President Biden and Vice President Harris are pushing transformational pieces of…
It seems to me that based on all the information that we know... points to a clear conviction in this particular case.
Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in cold blood. It's not that complicated.
The House has passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act through great leadership from Speaker Pelosi and Congresswoman Karen Bass.
It's certainly important for us to see accountability as it relates to the death of George Floyd.
As far as I'm concerned, George Floyd was killed in cold blood in what was really a modern day lynching.
I think that the prosecution has presented an incredibly strong case to date.
That particular attack was disgusting. And the entire rise in anti-Asian -- or violence directed at the Asian American community, I should say, is unacceptable, it`s unconscionable, and it`s un-American.
Well, this is a great country. We have come a long way. We still have a long way to go. But the reality is, systemic racism has been in the soil of this country for 401 years.
We need accountability in this trial, but we also need to move the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act through the Senate, get it to the president's desk.
What happened to George Floyd was a high-tech lynching. It was a cold-blooded murder. It unfolded in front of the American people.
I don`t believe a single one of them was actually handcuffed and escorted off the Michigan state capitol grounds, let alone getting into what took place on January 6, which says that this type of differential behavior is embedded in our…
We promised to put vaccination shots and arms for every single American. Mission accomplished. We promise to put money in the pockets of everyday Americans who`ve been struggling through the economic trauma of the pandemic. Mission…
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