Hakeem Jeffries

Rep. Pete Aguilar (D., Calif.) nominated Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) to be speaker. While Mr. Jeffries is not expected to win, it is customary for the ...

Jeffries was chosen by his caucus to be the minority leader after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) stepped aside. Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) to be speaker. Pete Aguilar (D., Calif.) nominated Rep.

While House Democrats' leadership succession occurred with effectively no drama, the same cannot be said of the Republican side.

Ritchie Torres had written a letter to the House Ethics Committee, demanding they investigate Santos. “Government of the people, by the people and for the people is not just rhetoric. McCarthy recently agreed to certain House rules changes as part of an effort to win over some conservative Republicans. House Democrats unanimously selected Jeffries to succeed Nancy Pelosi at the start of the new Congress, which gavels into session Tuesday. Jeffries calls Santos a “complete and total fraud” who does not “appear qualified to serve in the intuition of the House of Representatives.” However, he said, Republicans need to “own” the decision of whether to seat Santos. It’s reality.”

The ruling troika of Nancy Pelosi (age 82), Chuck Schumer (72), and Joe Biden (80) has participated in politics for about a combined 140 years. The last time ...

But the fetishization of youthful vigor—the yearning for the charismatic fresh face—is an ingrained cultural impulse that tends to disregard many of the qualities that make for an effective politician. The good news for the Democrats is that this is probably the ideal moment for generational turnover and opens the thrilling possibility of the nation’s first Black speaker. They reached professional maturity during the years when their political party began to struggle in the face of Republican attacks on the ethos of big-government liberalism, and they prided themselves on their pragmatism, their ability to count noses and preserve disparate coalitions. All of this suggests that at the end of their career, these leaders weren’t thinking about clinging to power so much as attempting to write the first lines of their obituary. Because of their midterm defeat in the House, they don’t have much power to wield in Congress. She gleefully taunted Donald Trump—a rather old politician lacking the benefits of age—in the Oval Office, in the presence of reporters, after having won a majority in 2018. One criticism of gerontocracy is that senior citizens are incapable of thinking toward the future, because they won’t be around for it. They spent heavily to decarbonize the economy and to maintain national competitiveness for generations. Younger people can, of course, competently perform these gigs, but their complexity is suited to those with the deepest reservoirs of experience. Pelosi is handing the gavel to an as-yet-unnamed Republican speaker and stepping aside as House Democratic leader in favor of the 52-year-old Hakeem Jeffries. With the narrowest of margins, they have accomplished far more than anyone could have reasonably expected—and far more than their recent Democratic predecessors. Even simply gathering the votes to become a leader can be a challenge, as Kevin McCarthy is now graphically demonstrating in his

Alaska's only voice in the U.S. House of Representatives cast Alaska's vote for election-denier Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a radial Democrat from Queens, ...

Later, as Democrats tried to force a federal takeover of elections and prohibit voter ID laws, Jeffries called for the Senate to “detonate the filibuster” and said that voter ID laws are a “Jim Crow-era relic.” Jeffries has said that Republicans are a cult. He joined the Congressional Progressive Caucus and in 2019, and he was quickly selected as one of the House impeachment managers for the Democrats’ first attempt to remove former President Donald Trump. Of the 19 Republican defectors, 10 voted for Rep. Although Jeffries has more votes on the first ballot than McCarthy, he does not have enough to become speaker; he needs 218 votes and the House only has 212 Democrats, all of whom supported him. A band of Republicans broke off from the main group of Republicans and voted for someone other than McCarthy, who is the elected nominee for Republicans. Hakeem Jeffries, a radical Democrat from Queens, New York, for Speaker of the House.

In the first three rounds of balloting, Jeffries received 212 votes from all Democrats in the House.

It's the Brooklyn way," he said. Jeffries is the first Black party leader in the Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries becomes first Black party leader in House of Representatives

Incoming Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said it isn't Democrats' job to help Republicans out of their speakership dilemma after the first day of the ...

McCarthy has said he has no plans to back down despite needing 16 of his detractors to change their minds. [Jeffries for speaker](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/who-could-be-speaker-if-not-mccarthy), which requires a 218-vote majority, while House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) ended with 202 votes and Rep. Democrats could also push to change the rules such that a plurality rather than a majority is needed to become speaker, but Jeffries wouldn't say if this was something he would consider.

House Minority Leader-elect Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., meets with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in ...

We are citizens. We are men. We are gay. We are secular. We are religious. We are Hindu. We are Muslim. We are Jewish. We are Christian. We are Asian. We are Latino. We are Black.

As Democrats voted in favor for US rep Hakeem Jeffries as House Speaker nominee, we learn more about his wife Kennisandra and their children.

Laneda earned her degree from Ohio’s Central State University and was a caseworker at the Williamsburg Welfare Center in Brooklyn. Hakeem was born in Brooklyn Hospital to parents Laneda and Marland Jeffries. The couple welcomed two children together, Jeremiah and Joshua, with whom they live in Prospect Heights.

Succeeding incumbent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, his ascent marks the oncoming of a new generation of Democratic Party leadership.

Perhaps that is one of the biggest reasons for his meteoric rise: while holding positions that cater to a large majority of the democratic base, he also manages to balance things out for more fence-sitting voters and moderate Republicans, forming a broad coalition of support. He has openly criticised various individuals and groups which have raised concern over Israel’s atrocious human rights record, saying in a rally in 2014, “Israel should not be made to apologise for its strength.” In 2012, he announced his resignation from the state assembly, saying, “Washington is broken. During his six-year tenure in the state assembly, he would introduce more than 70 bills, earning himself popularity and political capital for an eventual run to the US Congress. On a day when the lower chamber of Congress witnessed an infighting among Republicans and was adjourned without choosing a speaker, Jeffries made history by becoming the first black American to hold such a high position in the US’s federal legislature. However, he was already foraying into politics as early as 2000, when he contested and lost the Democratic Party Primary to incumbent assemblyman Roger Green.

The Democrat got unanimous party support over three roll call votes. Kevin McCarthy tried to sell his soul, but found no buyer.

/* post_comment_list_loader */ */ /* joined with Gottheimer to thwart progressive Democratic challengers and refused “to bend the knee to democratic socialism,” as he put it. In fact, a much-gossipped-about photo capturing Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez chatting amiably with GOP psycho dentist Paul Gosar, who once produced a cartoon of himself killing the Bronx-Queens leader, turned out to show AOC gently disabusing Gosar of the notion that Democrats were ready to walk out and make it easier for McCarthy to win. (The victor needs a majority of those present and voting for a named candidate, not of the entire House). He won all Democratic votes, in a speaker battle, for the first time since Pelosi did in 2007. I don’t think Beltway reporters addicted to a “Dems in disarray” story line ever understood what Pelosi accomplished, whether it was delivering her whole caucus for the Affordable Care Act in 2010, when the left was itching to bolt, to all the times she kept her members united under Donald Trump, to the selective defections she allowed—by the so-called Squad as well as centrists—as she pushed President Biden’s agenda in the past two years, knowing that certain members might need to go their own way given the proclivities of their districts. Shortly after noon on Tuesday, House security officials took down the weapon-detecting magnetometers, installed after January 6, that were intended to make sure no one entered the House chamber with a weapon. But they didn’t budge, and in fact their numbers climbed from an estimated five in the morning to 20 at 5 pm. Debased House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is still not speaker, after three roll call votes in which he actually lost support. He made history as the first Black House caucus leader; it was also the first time (to the best of my fact-checking ability) Brooklyn’s Biggie Smalls was quoted on the House floor.