Hakeem Jeffries
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate passed stopgap legislation Friday to keep the federal government funded through Sept. 30 and to avoid a shutdown that would have further damaged a precarious U.S. economy. The legislation includes $7 billion in funding cuts... Read More
WASHINGTON — After days of unrest in the Republican conference, the House on Friday passed a short-term funding bill, dramatically averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown just six hours before it was set to begin. The vote on “Plan C” of... Read More
WASHINGTON — A day after a Republican-led push to vote on a continuing resolution that was doomed for failure, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jefferies, D-N.Y., mused that it feels like “deja vu all over again” in the halls of the... Read More
WASHINGTON — The House Democratic leadership on Tuesday said if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., proceeds with introducing a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., they will muster enough support to table and effectively kill the measure. The revelation,... Read More
WASHINGTON — With Congress at a virtual standstill, President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Republican and Democratic leaders to act swiftly to avoid a government shutdown and finally pass long-stalled emergency aid to Ukraine and Israel. Biden invited House Speaker... Read More
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders from the House and Senate on Wednesday blasted away at a GOP proposal to do away with all income and payroll taxes and replace the lost federal revenue with a massive hike in the sales tax.... Read More
WASHINGTON — Sixty-one years after President John F. Kennedy famously declared during his inaugural address that “the torch has been passed” to a new generation, that process was renewed again on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, as House Democrats unanimously elected... Read More
WASHINGTON — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., made it official Friday morning, formally announcing his bid to replace outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the head of the party next year. Though it was no secret Jeffries would seek the... Read More
SAN ANTONIO — Dozens of Texas primary races around the state will be determined in runoff elections held on Tuesday, May 24, including those for U.S House seats, Texas Senate and House seats, attorney general, lieutenant governor and local offices.... Read More
WASHINGTON — The mammoth $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package contains something for everybody, just about, but on Capitol Hill itself perhaps the biggest news is the inclusion of a 21% increase in the Members' Representational Allowance, the budget line that... Read More
NEW YORK — He may be languishing in the polls, but Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., is stirring up headlines at this week’s New York State Democratic Committee’s Nominating Convention. Speaking at a breakfast meeting Thursday at the Sheraton New York... Read More
WASHINGTON — Vince Evans, a top aide to Vice President Kamala Harris, is leaving the White House to become the new executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus. Evans, who served as the vice president’s deputy director of public engagement... Read More
WASHINGTON -- Legal experts who testified to Congress Monday gave qualified support to President Joe Biden’s plan to make the federal judiciary more diversified. They said a judiciary that looks like the rest of America’s population was more likely to... Read More
WASHINGTON - House Democrats nominated Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to lead the chamber for another two years on Wednesday in a virtual voice vote that reflected a triumphant rebound in her stature among members, two years after a rebellious faction... Read More
