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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 3, 2020

Today's hearing coincides with our annual fly-in, where more than 400 employees representing railroads, suppliers, and labor are conducting some 300 meetings with Members of Congress.

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Feb 18, 2020

My party is very interested in deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House.

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Feb 11, 2020

Is the President currently in court through his Department of Justice supporting the repeal of the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional? Yes or no.

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Feb 11, 2020

The President's budget is a living, breathing fact check on all of the public lies that he has told, relative to his policy priorities.

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Feb 11, 2020

There is nothing in the 2021 budget that protects individuals with preexisting conditions. True?

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Feb 11, 2020

OK, if we can stick to facts, as opposed to alternate facts, that would be helpful.

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Feb 11, 2020

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a duck. It is a $500 billion cut to Medicare over a 10-year period of time.

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Feb 6, 2020

Donald Trump is a serial solicitor as it relates to trying to solicit foreign interference in our elections.

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Feb 6, 2020

It seems to me that there's an ongoing discussion, as Adam said, of making sure that we, in the House majority, continue to do the business of the American people, focus on the lowering health care costs, enacting a real infrastructure…

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Feb 6, 2020

In America, no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States of America.

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Feb 4, 2020

Some of the White nationalists, the White supremacists, the neo-Nazis were heard to have chanted, 'Jews will not replace us.'

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Feb 4, 2020

Certainly, we are deeply concerned about the antisemitic violence that we have been seeing in this country.

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Jan 30, 2020

The American people deserve a fair trial. The Constitution deserves a fair trial. The president deserves a fair trial. A fair trial means witnesses.

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Jan 28, 2020

The evidence is overwhelming that President Trump pressured foreign government to target an American citizen for personal and political gain as part of President Trump's corrupt effort to cheat and solicit foreign interference in the 2020…

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Jan 28, 2020

The Senate can get to the truth. You can get to the truth by calling witnesses who can testify.

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Jan 22, 2020

Read the transcript, President Trump says. We have read the transcript, and it is damning evidence of a corrupt quid pro quo. This is corruption and abuse of power in its purest form.

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Jan 21, 2020

Rudolph Giuliani is a cold-blooded political operative for President Trump's reelection campaign.

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Jan 20, 2020

The president directed the entire executive branch and all of his top aides and advisers to defy all requests for their testimony.

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Jan 20, 2020

The House managers strongly support this amendment to subpoena witness testimony including, with respect to Mick Mulvaney.

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Jan 14, 2020

The testimony of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries in support of H.R. 2843

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Dec 19, 2019

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. 773 Resolved, That the following named Members be, and are hereby, elected…

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Dec 11, 2019

We disagree with your effort, which is ongoing to strip away health care protections from more than 100 million Americans with preexisting conditions. We disagree with that as well. But we're not here, at this moment, undertaking this…

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Dec 10, 2019

We must hold this President accountable for his stunning abuse of power. We must hold this President accountable for undermining America's national security.

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