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Hakeem Sekou Jeffries (/ ˌhɑːˈkiːm / hah-KEEM; born August 4, 1970 [2]) is an American politician and attorney who has served as House Minority Leader and Leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 2023. He has been the U.S. representative for New York's 8th congressional district since 2013 and was a member of the New York State Assembly ...
Tasia Jackson knows a thing or two about the political rise of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). That’s because she’s had a front-row seat through it all. The Brooklyn native joined Jeffries’s ...
What to know about House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Who he is: Jeffries is the first Black lawmaker to be elected as leader of a major party in Congress. Jeffries has represented New York's ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., records a welcome message for an upcoming conference of preachers at Cornerstone Baptist Church in New York, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024.
The House Democratic Caucus, through its institutional antecedent, the Democratic-Republican caucus, was established on April 2, 1796, to stop a treaty with Great Britain which unfairly treated American sailors. For many years, through 1820, it nominated presidential candidates (before the era of national nominating conventions).
A fourth speaker ballot occurred on October 25. On the fourth ballot, Elise Stefanik of New York gave a nominating speech for Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Pete Aguilar of California gave a nominating speech for Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Johnson was elected with 220 votes, surpassing the 215-vote threshold required to win with 429 members ...
As the Democratic minority leader in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries' influence is normally limited. That is because the chamber's embattled speaker, Republican ...
Program for the dedication ceremonies, November 14, 1908. The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument is a war memorial at Fort Greene Park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It commemorates more than 11,500 American prisoners of war who died in captivity aboard sixteen British prison ships during the American Revolutionary War. [1]