Hakeem Jeffries

Don't walk to the polls. Don't jog to the polls. Run to the polls, to make sure this hater is not elected as the next president of the United States of America.

I am really concerned when I see the human rights groups and others denying individuals the opportunity to talk, et cetera.

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman. The right to vote is fundamental to the integrity of our democracy, and, as Lyndon Baines Johnson said from this very Chamber shortly before the Voting Rights Act was passed into law a few months…

Let me now yield to someone who has been a tremendous champion from the great State of Texas in representing her people in Houston and is a phenomenal member of the Judiciary Committee, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee.

Isn't it a fact that the case as it relates to that particular ID law in Texas, that individuals are able to vote if they have a gun license identification card, but are not able to vote under that draconian Texas law with a college ID?

Isn't it the case that a disproportionately high number of those DMV offices that the State of Alabama just happened to decide to close were in predominantly African American parts of the State of Alabama?

I think the greatest evidence of gross negligence, dereliction of duty, breach of public trust was when Members of this body in October of 2013 decided for purely political reasons that you were going to shut down the government for 16…

I thank the distinguished gentleman. In fact, what Representative Clyburn has consistently pointed out, which I think is important in an era where we are trying to find common ground and deal with the problems confronting the American…

Would the gentleman indulge one question? It was mentioned during that very thorough presentation of what is contained in the CBC budget the 10-20-30 program, and of course 10-20- 30, an initiative that has been championed by the CBC…

I appreciate the thoughtful observations of the gentlewoman from Texas. I think we want to bring Representative Stacy Plaskett into this conversation in terms of the stunning inability to present a budget. As Representative Jackson Lee…

You mentioned in your testimony that there is an absence of informed consent as it relates to the transmission of student data and academic information.

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman for those very powerful words. I can only hope, as we close this Special Order hour, that our colleagues from across this Capitol will see fit simply to adhere to their constitutional responsibilities…

I thank the distinguished Democratic whip for a very insightful and powerful observation, for pointing that the very fabric of the United States Constitution is threatened by the willingness of Senate Republicans to abdicate their…

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman for her wonderful thoughts and observations, and I look forward to our continued dialogue. It is now my honor and privilege to yield to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), one of those individuals…

Well, she's acknowledged that she made a mistake when she used the super predator language. But I'm not going to outweigh 40 years of attract record of getting things done with one speech and one inappropriate phrase.

I look forward to seeing you in Brooklyn.

It's absolutely not a scintilla of evidence that's the fact that Hillary Clinton has maintained some sort of relationship with Wall Street as a senator from New York and thereafter.

Compelling United States companies to violate, potentially as you have acknowledged, United States law by disclosing email content of non-U.S. citizens could possibly place United States businesses at a competitive disadvantage.

At the end of the day, in the absence of congressional action, at least as it relates to the specific circumstance that I laid out, is it fair to say that we could put a United States company in the position of providing email content…

Congress, in light of the silence that you have acknowledged at least as it relates to the Stored Communications Act, should step into the void to clarify the situation for all parties involved?

My focus then is we had, and I guess because of what took place in the past, in 1977 we passed the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).

I would hope that we would also focus then on what else needs to be done, because we do need to make sure that--especially those individuals who were victimized by the financial crises.

Thank you, Representative Scott, for laying out the steps that are being taken by the President in such a compelling way in explaining why they are items that we should all support as well as some of the steps that need to be taken…

It's my understanding that the Department of Justice is currently investigating whether the civil rights of Eric Garner were violated

One of the things that they had in common was that the weapons that were used to kill each of these offices came from outside of the State.