Hakeem Jeffries sets record with 8.5-hour speech before vote on Trump tax bill

  Hakeem Jeffries talked. And talked. And talked, as the top Democrat in the House of Representatives on Thursday blasted President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill in the longest speech in the chamber’s history. Hakeem Jeffries talked. And talked. And talked, as the top Democrat in the House of Representatives on Thursday blasted President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill in the longest speech in the chamber’s history.