The Latest Breaking News from Hakeem Jeffries

GOP targets Dem "training wheels" in '24 messaging strategy

Pelosi opted to remain as a backbencher despite relinquishing her leadership after 20 years on the job.

Axios · Feb 13, 2023

McConnell rips Scott plan: "Bad idea"

"It’s clearly the Rick Scott plan. It is not the Republican plan," McConnell said

Salon · Feb 10, 2023

Nicholas Goldberg: Why won’t Nancy Pelosi stop emailing me?

Somehow I thought that when the midterm elections were over, when Nov. 8 came and went, the barrage of political fundraising emails would stop.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 10, 2023

Dramatic shift in Black lawmakers elected in states or districts with plurality of white voters

The change is a shift from the recent past.

Axios · Feb 5, 2023

Mace secures McCarthy’s pledge on ‘due process’ vote

WASHINGTON — The House in the coming weeks could formalize a method for stripping members of committee posts, according to a deal Rep. Nancy Mace said she hashed out with Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the hours before Thursday’s vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from House Foreign Affairs.

Tribune News Service · Feb 3, 2023

Mace secures McCarthy's pledge on 'due process' vote - Roll Call

Mace said she brought a draft resolution to the speaker intended to implement "due process" for committee removals.

Roll Call · Feb 3, 2023

Rep. Quigley shocker: Democratic leader Jeffries knocks him off Intel panel

A spokesperson for House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Jeffries “made clear” to Quigley that term limits prevented him from staying on the panel.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 3, 2023

House Republicans vote Rep. Ilhan Omar off Foreign Affairs Committee

WASHINGTON — House Republicans narrowly voted Thursday to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the Foreign Affairs Committee, a move that follows Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s removal of Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee last month.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 2, 2023

House Republicans vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee

Republicans have cited the Minnesota Democrat's past controversial comments about Israel. Omar, who herself has faced anti-Muslim bigotry since taking office, called the move "purely partisan."

WEKU · Feb 2, 2023

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries slams GOP effort to oust Ilhan Omar as ‘act of political revenge’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tears into GOP effort to oust Rep Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2023