NATIONAL NEWS: CELEBRATING LEADER JEFFRIES
old Baer Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He then practiced law for several years at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, an internationally re- nowned law firm and served as counsel in the litigation department of Viacom Inc. and CBS. He also worked as of- counsel at Godosky & Gentile, a well- regarded litigation firm in New York City. Family Life Rep. Jeffries was born in Brook- lyn Hospital, raised in Crown Heights and is a product New York City’s public school system, having graduated from Midwood High School. He lives in Prospect Heights with his family.
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Since President Biden took office in January 2021, Rep. Jeffries has been in- strumental in House Democratic efforts to put people over politics by lowering costs, creating better-paying jobs and fighting for safer communities. Over the past two years Democrats have passed the American Rescue Plan, the Infra- structure Investment and Jobs Act, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Infla- tion Reduction Act. In 2022, Rep. Jeffries was able to secure $21.9 million for projects in Brooklyn to provide food for the hungry, fund overdue improvements to medical centers, support organizations working to uplift our neighborhoods, deepen our cultural understanding and more through the 2022 Community Project Funding process. In the spring of 2022, he successfully fought against the split- ting of Bedford Stuyvesant into mul- tiple Congressional Districts during the broken and gravely flawed redistricting process unleashed by partisan Republi- cans and their judicial co-conspirators
Last Congress, Rep. Jeffries was one of the most effective legislators, pass- ing multiple bills through the House of Representatives and into law with substantial bipartisan and stakeholder support. These measures touched on diverse subject matters and were draft- ed with the intention of making mean- ingful improvements to our federal laws and programs. Such bills included measures to ensure veterans and their families have access to benefits infor- mation (H.R. 2093, Public Law No. 117-62), to measure the progress of re- covery and efforts to address corruption, rule of law and media freedoms in Haiti (H.R. 2471, Public Law No. 117-103), to protect attorney-client privilege for incarcerated individuals corresponding electronically with their legal represen- tatives (H.R. 546) and to eliminate the federal sentencing disparity between drug offenses involving crack cocaine and powder cocaine once and for all (H.R. 1693).
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In Congress, Rep. Jeffries is a tire- less advocate for social and economic justice. He has worked hard to help residents recover from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, reform our criminal justice system, improve the economy for everyday Americans and protect our healthcare from right-wing
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