Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries broke the record for the House’s longest “magic minute” floor speech Thursday, using his ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes on Thursday, delaying final passage of Republicans' ...

House Democrats successfully avoided a vote on a controversial bill to prohibit transgender students from participating in girls’ sports, using a rare legislative action to move the bill to another ...

New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries held the House floor for more than eight hours on Thursday, July 3, in an attempt to stall a ...

Three months after Sen. Cory Booker broke his chamber's record for the longest speech ever, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ...

Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries has broken former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s record for longest floor speech in an ...

At 4:53 a.m. on Thursday, Hakeem Jeffries took his place at the lectern on the House floor, bound by no time limit, and began ...

The House minority leader, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, says he will take his “sweet time” in speaking on the floor to delay ...

In a fiery speech now lasting eight hours and 44 minutes, Jeffries has used the House’s “magic minute” rule — a tradition ...

Updated 9:50 a.m. Thursday. As U.S. representatives gear up for a vote on Donald Trump’s federal budget proposal, House Democrats are planning to buy time and delay the so-called “big, beautiful bill.

Jeffries held the House floor for more than eight hours Thursday, taking his “sweet time” with a marathon floor speech that ...