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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries ended his record-breaking speech by quoting John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr.

"Dr King said that if you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl, but at all times, press on and keep pressing," he said. "And so as I take my seat, I just want to say to the American people that no matter what the outcome is, on this singular day, we're gonna press on."

"We're going to press on for our children, press on for our seniors, press on for our veterans. Press on for our unions. Press on for our farmers. Press on for our dreamers. Press on for working class Americans. Press on for the middle class. Press on for all who aspire to be part of the middle class. Press on for the poor. Press on for the sick. Press on for the afflicted. Press on for the least. Press on for the lost. Press on for the left behind. Press on for the rule of law. Press on for the American way of life. Press on for democracy. We're going to press on until victory is won," he concluded.

House Democrats, in every example, repeated back to Jeffries: "Press on."

After he finished, Democrats gave Jeffries a loud standing ovation and chanted his name.

At 1:26 p.m. on Thursday, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries broke the record for the longest House floor remarks in U.S. history, surpassing the previous mark that was set by Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy in 2021.

"We don't work for President Trump. We don't work for JD Vance. We don't work for Elon Musk. Mr. Speaker, as all of us prepare to cast this vote, I hope my Republican colleagues will come to the conclusion that we work for the American people," Jeffries said as he drew close to the record.

House Democrats surrounded him as he spoke, standing and clapping and shaking their heads in agreement as he slammed the bill's impact on health care and food assistance programs.

"Shame on this institution if this bill passes. That's not America, we're better than this. We are better, we are better," Jeffries said.

Approaching the record for the longest House floor speech ever, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said this is not the end for Democrats in fighting for the American people.

"We gotta fight a lot of battles on behalf of the American people. It's not over," Jeffries said.

"This is just one of them," he added, "but we wanted to make sure that the American people had an opportunity to fully and more completely understands, in the light of day, just how damaging this one big, ugly bill will be to the American people."

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now 10 minutes away from breaking a record in the House for the longest floor speech ever -- an accomplishment held by Republican Kevin McCarthy, who four years ago spoke for 8 hours and 32 minutes in opposition to President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" legislation.

Throughout his remarks, aides have been passing him notes and teeing up content for him to read from.