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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...
...Jeffries respectively, and White House staff....
...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...
...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...
...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...
...“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...
...Jeffries, the top Democrats in Congress, in a joint statement....
...On Wednesday, Sunak laid a wreath at Arlington cemetery, met senior US political figures on Capitol Hill, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and attended a Washington...
...This was a policy failure so great that it ultimately led to 2003’s spectacularly misguided American-led invasion that left hundreds of thousands dead and Washington’s greatest strategic rival in the region...
...Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the House, said he supported the bill “without hesitation, reservation or trepidation”, adding: “Not because it’s perfect....
...Last week, Democrats voted unanimously to elect Brooklyn congressman Hakeem Jeffries as their House leader. He, of course, replaces the incomparable Nancy Pelosi, who led the caucus since 2003....
...The change in plans came as Biden met the four top members of Congress — Republicans McCarthy and Mitch McConnell and Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries — in the Oval Office on Tuesday to try and...
...The pair are expected to gather on Tuesday with Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries as the White House, congressional leaders...
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