Hakeem Jeffries
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Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010
With respect to the abolishment of the diversity visa lottery program, the CBC is extremely concerned that it might limit the future flow of immigration for people from certain parts of the world
Raw political ambition gave birth to the I.D.C., and raw political ambition will likely lead to its demiseMore quotes »
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Over-Criminalization Task Force In House Could Rethink Drug Laws
NEW YORK -- The House Judiciary Committee created a bipartisan task force Tuesday to investigate whether the federal code over-criminalizes minor offenses. Advocates and lawmakers said the move could eventually help reduce the size of the massive federal from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Past Links Two Rising Black Leaders
By Andrew Grossman Hakeem Jeffries is a freshman congressman from Brooklyn seen by Democratic Party leaders as a promising black politician with appeal across ethnic lines. Shavar Jeffries, a Seton Hall University law professor, is trying to cut a simila from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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Congressional Black Caucus: Immigration Not Just A Latino Issue
In preparation for this week’s immigration plan roll-out, three members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) gathered at Howard University to discuss immigration reform in black America and their priorities for the legislation. New York Reps. Yvette C from Campus Progress Read more »
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The new congressman from gun-afflicted Brooklyn is hopeful on background checks
The House Judiciary Committee has yet to hold a hearing on guns, but new representative Hakeem Jeffries is cautiously optimistic about the prospect of getting a background check bill through Congress. "I think that if the background check agreement [nego from Capital New York Read more »
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Featherstone: Keep taxpayer funds out of religious education
The day after Hakeem Jeffries won last June's Democratic primary, assured of winning his election for Congress, the popular Brooklyn politician said the tax code should be used to relieve families of the "crushing burden" of religious education, The Loca from amNewYork Read more »
