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Jeffries during the 112th Congress. In January 2012, Jeffries announced that he would give up his Assembly seat to run for the U.S. House from New York's 8th congressional district. Jeffries expected to give Towns a strong challenge in the Democratic primary—the real contest in this heavily Democratic, black-majority district.
PHOTO: House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries speaks to the press as he is flanked by Rep. Katherine Clark and Rep. Pete Aguilar on Capitol Hill, Dec. 18, 2024, in Washington.
The Democratic Party is witnessing a generational passing of the torch after the history-making speaker of the U.S. House of The post Who is Hakeem Jeffries, the next likely Democratic leader in ...
For his part, Jeffries has telegraphed that he is open to working with Republicans, but — this time — does not want to get caught responding to Trump’s every move.
Jeffries was elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the Ninety-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983). He was a conservative. He introduced 14 bills during his tenure, the most prominent of which was a 1981 law which settled a long-standing controversy over a minor border dispute between Missouri and Kansas [2]
Liz Jeffords died on the morning of April 13, 2007, after a long struggle with ovarian cancer. Jeffords and his wife had two children, Leonard and Laura, both of whom live and work in the Washington, D.C., area. After his wife's death, Jeffords resided in Washington, D.C., a move he made in order to live near his son and daughter. [10]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is facing his first big leadership test in the new Trump era as congressional Democrats push for a shakeup in their party’s approach to countering the ...
Hasan Kwame Jeffries (born January 13, 1973) [1] is a history professor and author at The Ohio State University. He is the brother of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the U.S. House Minority Leader. [2] He is the nephew of Leonard Jeffries, a former political science professor at City College of New York.