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Hakeem Jeffries Delays Vote On Big Beautiful Bill With Over 4-Hour Speech (atlantatribune.com)

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Photo: Getty Images North America House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is delivering a marathon speech on the House floor, delaying the chamber’s vote on President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. On Thursday (July 3), Jeffries began his speech opposing the GOP-backed policy bill at roughly 4:53 a.m. ET, using his power as party leader to speak for as […]

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

Confused as to how this is reported well after the fact and has the time of the speech rather incorrect. Jeffries went for >8 Hours

WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., broke the record for the longest House floor speech ever Thursday, blasting Republicans and delaying passage of their sweeping tax and spending bill for over eight hours

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He ended his 8-hour, 44-minute speech shortly after 1:30 p.m., yielding back with rapturous applause from Democrats who chanted his name and embraced him.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-minority-leader-hakeem-jeffries-blasts-republicans-trump-agenda-rcna216731

Note that this normally can't be done in the house by most members. Only the party leaders can do this through the the so called magic minute where the speech time isn't counted against the debate time by convention

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

drawn out fart noises

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So as expected, we get useless hot air out of worthless democrats. Thanks for the four hour performance made a huge difference.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They didn't have the votes to kill it in the house - the best they can do procedurally is delay it

What specific action would you have preferred them to take that wouldn't have required 4 house republicans breaking rank or 4 republican senators breaking rank?

EDIT: and to clarify this is not a defense of Schumer and Jeffries in general, just that here in this specific case they actually did much of what people were asking them to do - use their procedural powers to delay things more. They don't have magic wands to stop things without a majority of either chamber

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Weird how when it is Democrats in charge they always say.. "Our hands are tied this. The parliamentarian that. There is nothing we can do."

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you are going to make criticism, please make informed criticism

On the senate side they did challenge quite a bit as violations of the Byrd rule and got the parliamentarian to strike down some important parts of the bill. Provisions ranging from the attempts to limit court's abilities to hold people in contempt (pretty important one) to anti-trans medicare provisions to the federal land sell off. Think it was something like 15 provisions struck down for violating the rules of reconciliation (the narrow exception to the filibuster used to pass budget bills).

The struck provisions didn't end up in the final passed bill. And note that article is about the house which that limitation does not apply to. The filibuster does not exist in the house. Debate is time limited as well. The only reason Jeffries was able to speak as long as he did is the convention to not count a party leader's speech as being longer than one minute. Republicans could have cut him off if they wanted to

EDIT: And again, this is not a defense of either chamber's leader in general, just that they actually did this time what people were calling on them to do earlier. If you want to shit on Schumer for helping passing the CR in March where he actually did give up real leverage from the filibuster (was not passed through reconciliation), then rightly go ahead. Just endlessly frustrated at the desire for a magic wand to fix it all that doesn't exist. Criticize where it counts or we're wasting our energy in the wrong places