Washington – There is no filibster in the House, but Democratic leader Hakim Jeffrees compulsorily operated a single because the House argued with President Trump “Big, Beautiful Bill” Before pass On Thursday.
Jeffrees kept the house floor for more than eight hours, took their “sweet time” with a marathon floor speech, which delayed the passage of Tax on a large scale tax and spent the cut law and gave a long spotlight to their minority party, which they called the “unethical” bill.
As a Democratic leader, Jeffreies can speak as long as he wants during the debate on the law – so its surname on Capital Hill, “Magic Minutes”, which the leaders are speaking, lasts.
He started the speech at ET at 4:53 pm and broke the set by the then-Rap at 1:37 pm, 8 hours, 44 minutes later. In 2021, Kevin Macarthi of California, when he was a GOP leader. Macarthi spoke for 8 hours, 32 minutes, when he criticized the “Build Better” law of Democrats, breaking the record set by Rape Nancy Pelosi, when he spoke about immigration for 8 hours, 7 minutes in 2018.
Jeffrees said, “I feel an obligation, Mr. Speaker, to stand on the floor of this House and take his sweet time,” Jeffrees said.
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The speech pushed a final vote on Mr. Trump’s tax bill, initially it was expected to be in the morning, daylight. New York Democrats used time to criticize bill’s health care and food assistance, tax brakes for rollbacks for rollbacks, among other parts of the bill, which reduce democrats.
He killed the time by hitting the hip-hop, King George III and his own life story among other variations. He called Republican, who expressed concern about the bill, read the stories of the concerned people about their health care from the districts of GOP MPs and praised their own members, some of whom sat and cheered, clapped, laugh and shook hands.
“This careless Republican Budget is an immoral document, and that is why I stand on the floor of the House of House Democratic Cocks on the floor of the House of Representatives and to push back against it with everything near us,” Jeffreies said.
He ended the speech in the rhythm of Sunday’s preaching, in which most of the Democratic Cocks were in a tight handle around him. A colleague said, “Bring it home, Hakim!”
“We do not work for President Donald Trump,” Jeffrees said, Azal became silent as a handful of Republican and sometimes he kept talking as soon as he naps the leader.
He invited a civil rights activist and a long -standing Democratic Congress Late John Lewis of Georgia in the 1960s. “Get in good trouble, necessary troubles,” Jeffrees said. “We are going to press until the victory wins.”
Jeffrees snatched the small cutting of food and drank fluids to promote its energy, but did not leave the chamber or its podium. If he had done so, the speech would have been over.
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Democrats were powerless to prevent the huge bill, which was passed using the Republican using a vague budget process that bypasses the Senate Philibuster. So they were using the powers that they had, mostly to delay. In the Senate, New York’s Democratic Leader Chak Shumar forced Senate Clerks to read the bill for about 16 hours in the weekend.
Democratic Sen Corey Booker of New Jersey attracted a similar attention in April when he spoke for more than 25 hours on the first months of the presidential president of Shri Trump for more than 25 hours and broke the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the history of Chamber. Booker was assisted by fellow Democrats, who gave him a break from asking questions on the Senate floor, but Jeffrees’ “magic minute” did not allow any interaction with other members.
Republicans who were sitting on the floor when Jeffrees tricked, half room left empty. When the speech was over, the House Way and the President of the Means Committee Jason Smith, a Republican of Missouri, called it “a group of hogwash”.
The speech “will not change the result you will see very soon,” Smith said.
After the bill was passed, House Majority Leader Steve Skillis said that Democrats “wanted to speak for hours and hours and wanted to break the record as they wanted to stand in the way of history.”