Hakeem Jeffries

While House Democrats' leadership succession occurred with effectively no drama, the same cannot be said of the Republican side.

Ritchie Torres had written a letter to the House Ethics Committee, demanding they investigate Santos. “Government of the people, by the people and for the people is not just rhetoric. McCarthy recently agreed to certain House rules changes as part of an effort to win over some conservative Republicans. House Democrats unanimously selected Jeffries to succeed Nancy Pelosi at the start of the new Congress, which gavels into session Tuesday. Jeffries calls Santos a “complete and total fraud” who does not “appear qualified to serve in the intuition of the House of Representatives.” However, he said, Republicans need to “own” the decision of whether to seat Santos. It’s reality.”

In the first three rounds of balloting, Jeffries received 212 votes from all Democrats in the House.

It's the Brooklyn way," he said. Jeffries is the first Black party leader in the Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries becomes first Black party leader in House of Representatives

House Minority Leader-elect Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., meets with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in ...

We are citizens. We are men. We are gay. We are secular. We are religious. We are Hindu. We are Muslim. We are Jewish. We are Christian. We are Asian. We are Latino. We are Black.

In an apparent dig at Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, Democrats nominated their leader Hakeem Jeffries as House speaker, saying he does not "grovel" to ...

He does not bend a knee to anyone who would seek to undermine our democracy." "He does not grovel to or make excuses for a twice-impeached, so-called former president... Even so, McCarthy struggled to win the 218 votes needed, marking the first time in 100 years that a speaker vote failed on the first ballot. [backed him](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/us/politics/trump-mccarthy-speaker-republicans-freedom-caucus.html) for House Speaker. In an apparent dig at Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, Democrats nominated their leader Hakeem Jeffries as House speaker, saying he does not "grovel" to former President Donald Trump. - They said he does not "grovel" to former President Donald Trump.

Succeeding incumbent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, his ascent marks the oncoming of a new generation of Democratic Party leadership.

Perhaps that is one of the biggest reasons for his meteoric rise: while holding positions that cater to a large majority of the democratic base, he also manages to balance things out for more fence-sitting voters and moderate Republicans, forming a broad coalition of support. He has openly criticised various individuals and groups which have raised concern over Israel’s atrocious human rights record, saying in a rally in 2014, “Israel should not be made to apologise for its strength.” In 2012, he announced his resignation from the state assembly, saying, “Washington is broken. During his six-year tenure in the state assembly, he would introduce more than 70 bills, earning himself popularity and political capital for an eventual run to the US Congress. On a day when the lower chamber of Congress witnessed an infighting among Republicans and was adjourned without choosing a speaker, Jeffries made history by becoming the first black American to hold such a high position in the US’s federal legislature. However, he was already foraying into politics as early as 2000, when he contested and lost the Democratic Party Primary to incumbent assemblyman Roger Green.

The Democrat got unanimous party support over three roll call votes. Kevin McCarthy tried to sell his soul, but found no buyer.

/* post_comment_list_loader */ */ /* joined with Gottheimer to thwart progressive Democratic challengers and refused “to bend the knee to democratic socialism,” as he put it. In fact, a much-gossipped-about photo capturing Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez chatting amiably with GOP psycho dentist Paul Gosar, who once produced a cartoon of himself killing the Bronx-Queens leader, turned out to show AOC gently disabusing Gosar of the notion that Democrats were ready to walk out and make it easier for McCarthy to win. (The victor needs a majority of those present and voting for a named candidate, not of the entire House). He won all Democratic votes, in a speaker battle, for the first time since Pelosi did in 2007. I don’t think Beltway reporters addicted to a “Dems in disarray” story line ever understood what Pelosi accomplished, whether it was delivering her whole caucus for the Affordable Care Act in 2010, when the left was itching to bolt, to all the times she kept her members united under Donald Trump, to the selective defections she allowed—by the so-called Squad as well as centrists—as she pushed President Biden’s agenda in the past two years, knowing that certain members might need to go their own way given the proclivities of their districts. Shortly after noon on Tuesday, House security officials took down the weapon-detecting magnetometers, installed after January 6, that were intended to make sure no one entered the House chamber with a weapon. But they didn’t budge, and in fact their numbers climbed from an estimated five in the morning to 20 at 5 pm. Debased House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is still not speaker, after three roll call votes in which he actually lost support. He made history as the first Black House caucus leader; it was also the first time (to the best of my fact-checking ability) Brooklyn’s Biggie Smalls was quoted on the House floor.

'There's a genuine sense that he wants to develop relationships and working partnerships with many of us,' progressive Democrat says of new leader.

His assumption of the minority leader role comes after Democrats lost their House majority in the November midterms, albeit only by a slim margin. Mr Jeffries has been in the House since 2013 after spending almost six years in the New York State Assembly. While the House Democrats are often a big, diverse, “noisy family,” he said, “it’s a good thing.

On Tuesday, Hakeem Jeffries was formally announced as the leader of House Democrats. For the last two decades, Nancy Pelosi has been the face for the party.

[avid supporter](https://www.theroot.com/ny-rep-blasts-black-conservative-sheriff-who-blames-u-1790859910) of police reform during his time in Congress. In 2019, becoming the chairman of the Democratic caucus made him the youngest member to serve in leadership. [Jeffries](https://www.theroot.com/hakeem-jeffries-is-in-line-to-be-democrats-next-house-l-1849803082) represents the Eighth Congressional District of New York. In 2014, he pushed for a national ban on chokeholds after the death of [Eric Garner](https://www.theroot.com/what-the-eric-garner-case-says-about-staten-island-poli-1790877931) who died while being restrained by police. [Speaker Nancy Pelosi](https://www.theroot.com/as-speaker-pelosi-nears-her-exit-rep-hakeem-jeffries-1848301148) in January 2020 to be one of seven House Impeachment Managers in the Senate trial of former President Donald Trump. 1) Hakeem Jeffries is the first Black politician to lead either party in Congress.

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

[Nancy Pelosi](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/nancy-pelosi), who decided to walk away from a leadership role. [Democrats](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/democrats), meanwhile, have supported Jeffries with every vote in every round. "Those are just the highlights of what Democrats did with a similar narrow majority," Jeffries said. Jeffries will be a great leader," Michigan GOP Watch tweeted on Wednesday morning, along with CSPAN's clip of the exchange. "We are looking for a willing partner to solve problems for the American people, not save the Republicans from their dysfunction," Jeffries replied. "Day One. Wednesday's fourth round saw the [anti-McCarthy conservatives](https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-vote-santos/card/who-is-byron-donalds-nominated-for-speaker-by-mccarthy-foes-bQI4yUnrZv4PnTTMzvBH) support Byron Donalds of Florida. It marked the first time in [history that a Black person](https://www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffries-democratic-house-leader-breaks-more-one-barrier-1763638) was named to lead a party in [Congress](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/congress). "This is a perfect response to the GOP disfunction." [Republicans](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/republicans) in the House, and [he needs the support of 218](https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-savaged-clowns-after-mccarthys-failed-speaker-bid-1771076) if every member submits a ballot. [Hakeem Jeffries](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/hakeem-jeffries), a New York Democrat, railed against what he views as Republican "dysfunction" in the battle for speaker of the House. [faction of hardline conservatives](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/politics/20-republicans-voted-against-mccarthy/index.html) has refused to pick McCarthy, instead opting for Ohio's [Jim Jordan](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/jim-jordan) in Tuesday's third round of voting.

Democrats are steadily voting for Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who has a vast history of denying the legitimacy of elections, to become the next House ...

[Republican National Committee](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rnc-blasts-election-denier-hakeem-jeffries-moments-he-wins-democrat-leadership), which criticized Jeffries as an "election denier" and posted tweets that Jeffries had posted in 2018. [has a history](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hakeem-jeffries-called-trumps-2016-election-victory-hoax-referred-him-so-called-president) of displaying the very behavior that many in the Democratic Party now accuse their opposition of. They do not recognize the will of the people. "The real hoax is likely your so-called election victory," Jeffries claimed at the time. [elected in November](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hakeem-jeffries-replace-nancy-pelosi-house-democrat-leader-congress) by his Democratic House colleagues to succeed Rep. All Democrats voted for Jeffries in the last five votes and no other Democrat has been nominated by the party to serve as speaker.

Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries became the first Black lawmaker nominated for Speaker of the House. He also became the first Democrat since 2007 to ...

I cast my vote for the honorable Hakeem Jeffries. The symbolic torch-passing received a standing ovation from Democrats. She led her party since 2003. That's the year when they elected Nancy Pelosi. That is Representative Pete Aguilar from California nominating fellow Democrat Hakeem Jeffries. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)