Hakeem Jeffries Delays Vote On Big Beautiful Bill With Over 4-Hour Speech
Hakeem Jeffries Delays Vote On Big Beautiful Bill With Over 4-Hour Speech
Photo: Getty Images North America House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is delivering a marathon speech on the House floor, delaying the chamber’s vote on President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. On Thursday (July 3), Jeffries began his speech opposing the GOP-backed policy bill at rough...
Photo: Getty Images North America House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is delivering a marathon speech on the House floor, delaying the chamber’s vote on President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. On Thursday (July 3), Jeffries began his speech opposing the GOP-backed policy bill at roughly 4:53 a.m. ET, using his power as party leader to speak for as […]
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Confused as to how this is reported well after the fact and has the time of the speech rather incorrect. Jeffries went for >8 Hours
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., broke the record for the longest House floor speech ever Thursday, blasting Republicans and delaying passage of their sweeping tax and spending bill for over eight hours
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He ended his 8-hour, 44-minute speech shortly after 1:30 p.m., yielding back with rapturous applause from Democrats who chanted his name and embraced him.
Note that this normally can't be done in the house by most members. Only the party leaders can do this through the the so called magic minute where the speech time isn't counted against the debate time by convention
So as expected, we get useless hot air out of worthless democrats. Thanks for the four hour performance made a huge difference.
They didn't have the votes to kill it in the house - the best they can do procedurally is delay it
What specific action would you have preferred them to take that wouldn't have required 4 house republicans breaking rank or 4 republican senators breaking rank?
EDIT: and to clarify this is not a defense of Schumer and Jeffries in general, just that here in this specific case they actually did much of what people were asking them to do - use their procedural powers to delay things more. They don't have magic wands to stop things without a majority of either chamber
drawn out fart noises