Hakeem Jeffries Breaks Kevin McCarthy's Record For Longest House Floor Speech

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries broke the previous record for longest speech on the House floor, which was held by former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

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00:00All of this is being done to provide massive tax breaks to billionaire donors.

00:13Shame on this institution if this bill passes.

00:18That's not America. We're better than this. We are better. We are better.

00:30We are better than this.

00:41I think that

00:48as we prepare to vote on this one big ugly bill,

00:54tough time for people in the United States of America.

00:57It's extraordinary, extraordinary extremism unleashed on the American people.

01:07Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle promised

01:11to address the high cost of living. Nothing in this bill will meaningfully lower the high cost

01:17of living in the United States of America. Nothing.

01:26It's incredible to me.

01:29All of the promises

01:31that were made by some people in this town.

01:33The top priority was going to be to lower the high cost of living in the United States of America.

01:41Make a plan, make a plan.

01:43And then

01:48all of last year

01:51ran away from Project 2025.

01:54Come on. Come on.

01:55all of the people in this town acted like it didn't exist.

02:06And then, Mr. Speaker, people come to town, they're in the majority now and every single

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