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

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

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

The House minority leader has been speaking for hours to delay the passage of the president's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Jeffries speech seeks to leverage public opinion against Trump's mega-bill as surveys show large opposition to Medicaid cuts ...

Hakeem Jeffries talked. And talked. And talked, as the top Democrat in the House of Representatives on Thursday blasted ...

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 overwhelming consensus on Capitol Hill was that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) would only delay President ...

Then-Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy set the record for the longest “magic minute” in 2021, speaking for more than eight ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, has been shepherding the process of getting Trump's flagship legislation across the ...

Mr Jeffries began speaking at 4.53am and wrapped up at 1.38pm. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Lacking the votes to defeat the measure in a chamber that Republicans control by a slim 220-212 margin, Mr Jeffries, 54, ...