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Hakeem Jeffries currently serves as the minority leader of the House of Representatives and as leader of the House Democratic Caucus. Rep. Jeffries is popular for the ABCs of Democracy speech he gave after ascending to the Minority Leader role earlier this year. It's a new role, but the 53-year-old isn't new to politics. He's been championing community-centered policy since early in his career when he pushed for criminal justice reform. He wrote, supported and passed bills like the "Stop and Frisk" database bill in 2010, which protects privacy and mitigates prejudice by preventing the NYPD from keeping a database of innocent people who have been stopped and frisked.
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