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The Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act is legislation that was introduced in the 115 and 116th U.S. Congresses to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and to establish a Marijuana Opportunity Trust Fund. The legislation was sponsored by U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, minority leader at the time, and Representative Hakeem Jeffries. [1]
The PREPARE Act, introduced in 2022, was reintroduced on April 14 by Republican representatives Dave Joyce and Brian Mast, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. It would create a federal "Commission on the Federal Regulation of Cannabis" to study regulatory and tax frameworks for legalization, and direct federal departments to do so as ...
Hakeem Sekou Jeffries (/ ˌ h ɑː ˈ k iː m / hah-KEEM; born August 4, 1970 [2]) is an American politician and attorney who has served as House minority leader and Leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 2023.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) made a gassy gaffe while addressing the newly sworn-in 119th Congress on Friday.. At one point, Jeffries promised his colleagues that the Democratic ...
Jeffries arrives for a get-out-the-vote rally for Democratic candidate Tony Vargas in Omaha, Nebraska, on October 20, 2024. - Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images
Hakeem Jeffries nearly became House speaker. Instead, he’s steering the Democratic Party through an identity crisis and hoping to avoid an ugly intraparty civil war. Even without the gavel, many ...
Hakeem Jeffries; 0–9. 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in New York; 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in New York;
As Jeffries ascended, so did Jackson. The 38-year-old was named chief of staff in Jeffries’s personal office in 2017, and was elevated again last year to take over that same position in his ...