Hakeem Jeffries

This is not a group exemption. And I think that has just been a blanket misrepresentation.

There's no way that DHS can deport 11 million undocumented immigrants because it does not have the resources to do so

Those are all individual factors that will be assessed by the Department of Homeland Security to determine eligibility.

Thank you, Congressman Lewis, for those very eloquent thoughts and for continuing to really function as the conscience of the CBC as our caucus functions as the conscience of the Congress. Mr. Speaker, it is now my distinct honor and…

I thank the gentlewoman from Illinois. Let me now yield to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne). Although he does not have on one of his signature ties, he is the informal chair of the ``bowtie caucus'' and someone who has been a…

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from California. In the 113th Congress, we have had sequestration, $85 billion in randomly spread-out cuts across our budget impacting the American economy. We have had a government shutdown that was…

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from Wisconsin for her very eloquent and sharp observations with respect to the lack of merit to the GOP lawsuit that they are going to proceed with this week. We now have also been joined by the…

The notion that Federal criminal defense has simply become negotiation efforts toward resolution.

There has got to be some way to reign in the inappropriate exercise of prosecutorial decision-making.

I would just note for the record that we are preparing to sue the President based on alleged lawlessness.

The effort to hold financial institutions accountable for their actions and to make sure that consumers in the United States of America and those that we represent aren't harmed by reckless behavior, seems to be an appropriate thing for…

Hypocrisy is not a constraint in this institution.

I find it ironic, there is a lot of concern about lawlessness in this town and in this institution.

I have stated that I have concerns about the way Operation Choke Point has impacted some of the legal entities that have operated within the law.

I oppose any attempts to weaken the appraisal standards.

I want to particularly say, though, that I am supporting, and think that H.R. 3240, by Mr. Pittenger; H.R. 3374, by Mr. Kilmer; H.R. 4626, by the Chair; and H.R. 5062, by my friend, Mr. Perlmutter--all the bills, I think, bipartisan, we…

We need to provide regulatory relief.

Balance is, I think, the key to this--to everything, is having the proper balance.

The larger banks are still getting bigger, and they are still too-big-to-fail.

NIJC urges immediate consideration of these bills by the U.S. House of Representatives, which is long overdue.

A clear mandate from Congress and additional appropriations are needed to fund universal appointment of counsel for all unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings.

This initiative is a step in the right direction, but given its modest size, geographic application to only 29 cities, limitation to children under the age of 16, and the time it will take to get the program operational, the overwhelming…

Congress should pass The Vulnerable Immigrant Voice Act of 2014 by Congressman Jeffries, which would address the dire need for unaccompanied children to have access to legal counsel.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount insert the following: ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''. Page 33, line 11, after the…

More than 3 million Americans have been left behind by the failure to renew unemployment insurance. These individuals live in urban America, in suburban America, and in rural America. They live in blue States and they live in red States…