{"id":11048,"date":"2025-07-07T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hakeem-jeffries-breaks-the-house-record-for-longest-floor-speech-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:21:43","slug":"hakeem-jeffries-breaks-the-house-record-for-longest-floor-speech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hakeem-jeffries-breaks-the-house-record-for-longest-floor-speech-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakeem Jeffries breaks the House record for longest floor speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivered the longest speech in House history Thursday, holding the floor for well over eight hours to delay passage of Republicans&rsquo; domestic policy megabill. His so-called &ldquo;magic minute,&rdquo; as the unlimited speaking time granted to party leaders is known, breaks a record set by Republican Kevin McCarthy in 2021&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/03\/congress\/hakeem-jeffries-longest-house-speech-00438933\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivered the longest speech in House history Thursday, holding the floor for well over eight hours to delay passage of Republicans&rsquo; domestic policy megabill. His so-called &ldquo;magic minute,&rdquo; as the unlimited speaking time granted to party leaders is known, breaks a record set by Republican Kevin McCarthy in 2021&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}