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Hakeem Jeffries: “Congress at its best should be a rival to the executive…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Leader Jeffries at the 2026 CAP IDEAS Conference

Published | Video Starts at 18:48

And the thing I'll say about this, John, is in terms of, listen, our oversight effort, it's not a Democratic playbook, it's not a partisan playbook. It's the James Madison playbook. Like it was Madison who said Congress at its best should be a rival to the executive branch. He said it. And there were no political parties. It was the American thing to do. And of course, that's not what this Congress, you know, has done. (18:48–18:53)

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Asserts that Congress should act as a check on executive power.

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