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...Schumer said he, the president, vice-president, House Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and, most notably, Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell all took turns making the case for signing...
...And so he did: Although there was no indication that Johnson actually worked in concert with the House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, all 210 Democrats who were present in Washington on Saturday backed...
...Earlier this year, Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, predicted there would be a “reasonable number” of House Democrats who think Johnson “should not fall”....
...Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats’ leader in the House, said on Friday that his party had “cleared the way” for the legislation, helping it overcome opposition from “pro-Putin MAGA extremists” such as Marjorie...
...“We continue to condemn his baseless arrest, fabricated charges and unjust imprisonment,” said Republicans Mike Johnson and Mitch McConnell, and Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries....
...The foreign secretary was also scheduled to hold talks on Wednesday with Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, and Ben Cardin, the Democratic chair of the Senate committee on foreign relations....
...Jeffries respectively, and White House staff....
...The attendees, who also included Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries and Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, were briefed on Ukraine by Sullivan and CIA director Bill Burns....
...Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House, also indicated on Wednesday that he would be directing party members to get behind the funding for Ukraine in particular, telling reporters: “This is...
...In a joint statement with Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, Schumer said the framework agreed on Sunday “clears the way for Congress to act over the next few weeks in order to maintain important funding...
...She was replaced by New York congressman Hakeem Jeffries, who is now House minority leader....
...At that point, moderate Republicans would face a choice between complicity in the further disabling of US democracy, or throwing their support to Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader of a very...
...House Democrats have remained united in voting for their own leader, Hakeem Jeffries, in each of the floor votes for the speakership....
...Democrats have shown no willingness to endorse Jordan, who was described by House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries as an “extremist extraordinaire”....
...Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats’ leader in the House, did not use the phrase “discharge petition” in a letter he sent to colleagues on Tuesday, but he vowed to use “every available legislative tool” to get...
...Democrats have made clear that they have no interest in crossing the political aisle to support Jordan’s candidacy, with House Democratic majority leader Hakeem Jeffries calling the Ohio congressman an “...
...When Hakeem Jeffries was growing up in Crown Heights, a working-class neighbourhood in Brooklyn, his congresswoman was Shirley Chisholm, a New York politician who in 1968 became the first black woman elected...
...Democratic lawmakers have unanimously elected Hakeem Jeffries as their next leader in the House of Representatives, after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she would step aside as the party’s most senior...
...“It is now the responsibility of the GOP members to end the House Republican civil war,” Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, said in a letter to party colleagues....
...Hakeem Jeffries, the senior House Democrat, told NBC News on Sunday that he had held “informal conversations” about forming a governing coalition with Republicans....
...The next day, Pelosi, 82, gave her explicit endorsement to Hakeem Jeffries, the New York congressman 30 years her junior who had long been seen as her heir apparent....
...They were joined by the entire House Democratic caucus, who refused to bail out McCarthy, a Republican Speaker who Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, said was “unwilling to break from Maga extremism...
...Meanwhile, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has suggested he would be open to a “bipartisan governing coalition” with centrist Republicans, but no Republicans have publicly endorsed that idea....
...Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the lower chamber, issued a statement with other party leaders accusing Republicans of turning “what should be a meaningful investment in our men and women in uniform...
...US House impasse: Moderate Republicans face a choice between complicity in the further disabling of democracy or joining Democrats to elect Hakeem Jeffries as a “coalition Speaker”, writes the FT editorial...
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