Hakeem S. Jeffries
Democrat · NY-8 · U.S. House
NY-8 — U.S. House
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Bio
Hakeem Sekou Jeffries is an American politician and attorney serving since 2013 as the U.S. representative for New York's 8th congressional district. From 2007 to 2012, he represented the 57th district in the New York State Assembly. A member of the Democratic Party, Jeffries has served since 2023 as the leader of the House Democratic Caucus and House minority leader.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.7 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 111 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 56
- House Democratic Caucus Chair · 2019–2023
- House Minority Leader · 2023–present
- Brooklyn, NY · 718-373-0033
- Brooklyn, NY · 718-237-2211
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $340k – $1.1M
- Liabilities
- $515k – $1.2M
- Net worth
- −$840k – $586k
- Since 2019
- +$112k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 33 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Hakeem S. Jeffries's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Jeffriessits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Jeffries's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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Yahoo Entertainment · Yesterday
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Biztoc.com · Yesterday
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Vox · October 9, 2026
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