Hakeem Jeffries Breaks Record For Longest House Speech in Marathon Protest of Trump’s Bill

TIME

At 4:53 a.m. on Thursday, Hakeem Jeffries took his place at the lectern on the House floor, bound by no time limit, and began reading letters from constituents in Republican districts who have expressed fear of President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending bill becoming law.

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00:00Not a single thing in Donald Trump's one big ugly bill will meaningfully make life more

00:14affordable for everyday Americans.

00:18And that's just one of several reasons why House Democrats are a hell no on this legislation.

00:27We were a hell no last week, a hell no this week, a hell no yesterday, a hell no today.

00:39Extraordinary to me, Mr. Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining

00:46the swamp.

00:47Guess what?

00:48You are the swamp.

00:50You are the swamp.

00:54You are the swamp.

00:57We've never seen anything like this, the type of corruption that has been unleashed on

01:04the American people and has poisoned, Mr. Speaker, this bill.

01:11We're going to press on for our children, press on for our seniors, press on for our veterans,

01:20press on for our unions, press on for our farmers, press on for our dreamers, press on for working

01:27class Americans, press on for the middle class, press on for all who aspire to be part of

01:34the middle class, press on for the poor, press on for the sick, press on for the afflicted,

01:42press on for the least, press on for the lost, press on for the left behind, press on for the

01:49rule of law, press on for the American way of life, press on for democracy.

01:54Press on.

01:55We're going to press on until victory is won.

01:58I yield back.

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