Watch live: Jeffries speaks as House returns for key votes
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is scheduled to speak with reporters Monday afternoon as lawmakers return from their August recess. The House is set for a week of key votes, including consideration of a stopgap spending bill intended to avert a government shutdown, less than two months before the midterm elections.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is scheduled to speak with reporters Monday afternoon as lawmakers return from their August recess.
The House is set for a week of key votes, including a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown.
Jeffries’s remarks come less than two months before the midterm elections, as Democrats seek to retake the House.
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