Hakeem Jeffries

Bannon told Newsweek that McCarthy "double-crossed people, he lied to people" about the debt ceiling deal and needs to go.

The New York congressman denounced Thomas and other Black conservatives in a college essay written more than 30 years ago.

The Democratic House minority leader's uncle Leonard Jeffries reportedly referred to Jews as "skunks" and "dogs" in a speech.

Representative Dan Crenshaw thanked TikTok CEO Shou Chew for "bringing Republicans and Democrats together."

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called Santos' decision "appropriate" as an ethics investigation remains ongoing.

A speech by Hakeem Jeffries conceding the House Speaker election to Kevin McCarthy has gone viral online.

It was House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and not Nancy Pelosi, who handed the speaker's gavel to McCarthy early Saturday morning.

Rep. Mike Bost erupted in anger when Rep. Matt Gaetz offered an unkind evaluation of Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

Voting for the next House Speaker continues Friday night after members of Congress failed to reach a consensus in 13 previous ballots.

A lot of this is about McCarthy's personal ambition, not his principles.

After Matt Gaetz' nominated the former president on Thursday, the odds of Trump being the next House speaker are shortening on online betting websites.

Claims on social media suggest Hakeem Jeffries with only six votes could become Speaker of the House.

Lauren Boebert, the Colorado Congresswoman who has not been voting to support McCarthy, said Wednesday she could nominate the former president.

The Georgia Republican posted a new advertisement on Twitter that was paid for by her campaign, calling Jeffries a "radical leftist."

"We are looking for a willing partner to solve problems for the American people, not save the Republicans from their dysfunction," the congressman said.

The son of the former president voiced his displeasure with the Republican lawmakers who blocked Representative Kevin McCarthy in his House speaker bid.

"Congratulations to @RepJeffries, elected as the leader of House Democrats for the 118th Congress," Democratic lawmakers wrote in a tweet.

Pelosi, who has been in Democratic leadership for nearly two decades, announced she would bow out in January, paving the way for a new generation of lawmakers.

"Democrats want the credit for their social policies and the government handouts they're planning, but they don't want to own the price tag," Sen. John Thune said.

"It's not my expectation, given Kevin McCarthy's past practice, that he will do anything other than bend the knee to Donald Trump," said the House Democratic Caucus chair.

The New York congressman criticized the freshman from Utah, implying that his vote to object the election certification was unpatriotic.

"Slavery was not a 'necessary evil.' It was a crime against humanity, anchored in kidnap, rape, torture, lynching and the systematic oppression," Representative Hakeem Jeffries said.

New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries urged the federal government to show "maximum transparency" about its stimulus loan program to support small companies with their payroll costs.

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, a House manager, pointed out that the Senate has conducted fifteen impeachment trials and there were witnesses at every single one.

"It's clear that there is none of the bipartisan support that Speaker Pelosi said for months was essential to impeachment," Chris Wallace said.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) also said that the American people "deserve to know" if Trump is a "legitimate president" or a "Russian asset."

"It ends the dominance of big, dark, special interest money in politics and it empowers small donors and the grassroots," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on the steps of the Capitol.

Trump "has presided over and engaged in directly a series of racially insensitive remarks," Jeffries said Wednesday.

"What we're unwilling to do is to pay a $5 billion ransom note for a medieval border wall that Trump wants to put forward that he initially said…that Mexico would pay for," New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries told CNN.

The Congresswoman-elect said the Politico article only had anonymous sources.