Hakeem Jeffries

Is it a step in the right direction, to use your language?

It represents meaningful progress, true?

I thank my colleague, Mr. Collins, for his tremendous leadership on a whole variety of issues we have worked on together, and certainly as it relates to the CASE Act.

The CASE Act will help fill this void by establishing a voluntary alternative form for small copyright owners that will enable them to enforce and protect their content in a fair, timely and affordable manner.

Unfortunately, under the current system, these creators are given a right without an adequate remedy.

Today, we are considering H.R. 3945, otherwise known as the CASE Act, which would create a fair and balanced forum for small creators to be able to vindicate their copyright under law.

Copyright infringement is not a victimless crime. Photographers, illustrators, visual artists, writers, individual songwriters, musicians, all rely upon their creative works in order to put food on the table and support their families.

The figure is 3 percent of Planned Parenthood's activities are abortion related.

It's amazing how we get concerned about all of these other entities, but somehow we can live through what we witnessed yesterday as it relates to the President of the United States continuing to play footsie with Vladimir Putin.

I regret that I was not present for votes on June 21, 2018, due to my son Joshua Jeffries' graduation. Had I been present, I would have voted: ``nay'' on rollcall No. 279, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 280, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 281, ``nay''…

I think we should have hearings about how the Trump administration is deporting their parents as those children remain wards of this country.

We are the people for whom this government has been organized. It is of us, by us, and for us.

I am feeling very discouraged by where this committee has taken us all day long.

I want to understand why my colleagues here in this room, in this committee, in the Judiciary Committee, and even in Congress are silent as we become enemies to our friends and friends to dictators.

It's a phony, fraudulent, and fake argument. Stop peddling lies about a so-called Democratic witch hunt to the American people.

What are you guys complaining about? You know what happened. James Comey decided to play judge, jury, and executioner.

There is not a scintilla of evidence that a witch hunt exists right now. In fact, if any, individual connected to the 2016 Presidential campaign was victimized by prosecutorial misconduct, her name was Hillary Clinton.

For the last few hours we have sat in this hearing, and some of my colleagues, part of the Cover-Up Caucus, have attempted to peddle conspiracy theories that the investigation into the Trump campaign's potential criminality, where we were…

Now, Donald Trump, the Republican President, appointed Rod Rosenstein to that position of deputy AG, true?

And Trump's former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, has pled guilty to lying to the FBI, correct?

In my view that's not a question we should be asking, certainly from my standpoint.

We live in a democracy, not an authoritarian state. Is that correct?

Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, correct?

I would just ask, given all that has been documented about the fact that inmates are more likely to recidivate in the private prison context, the safety conditions, the humanity of the conditions in which they are maintained, dramatically…

In addition to the fact that as Cedric Richmond pointed out, these type of programs save taxpayer dollars.