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

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday set a new House floor speech record with a “magic minute” address ...

It is being called the “magic minute.”  That minute turned into hours as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) set a ...

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

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries breaks the record for longest speech delivered on the House floor with nearly nine hours of remarks about how the Republican tax bill would hurt Americans.

Mr Jeffries’ speech, at 8 hours and 46 minutes, marked Democrats’ last chance to prosecute their case against the US$3.4 trillion (S$4.3 trillion) package.

But Mr. Jeffries was making use of his prerogative as a leader to stretch his allotted 60 seconds of speaking time for far longer, in a House tradition known as a “magic minute.” ...

Mr. Jeffries began speaking at 4:53 a.m. and wrapped up at 1:38 p.m. That broke a 2021 House record sent by then-House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, who spent 8 hours and 32 minutes lambasting ...