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» HOYER HITS REPUBLICANS ON DEBT LIMIT, May 19, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to a letter from the Treasury Department to Speaker Hastert warning that the United States will be unable to make $78 billion in payments to Social Security recipients, defense contractors and taxpayers awaiting refunds if Congress does not raise the debt limit by May 28...

» HOYER CALLS FOR OPEN AND DELIBERATIVE PROCESS ON MEDIA OWNERSHIP RULES, May 14, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) and members of the Democratic Caucus today asked Federal Communications Chairman Michael Powell to delay a decision on media ownership rules and expressed concern that the process will not allow for proper public comment and examination of the new rules...

» HOYER ASSAILS REPUBLICAN “RECESSION” PLAN, May 09, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) spoke on the floor today in opposition to the misguided, irresponsible Republican tax plan and the GOP leadership’s refusal to allow Democrats to put their alternative on the Floor...

» REPUBLICANS LACK CREDIBILITY ON ECONOMY, May 07, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) and members of the Democratic leadership today blasted the Republican tax cut proposals, which will worsen the Bush job recession and do nothing to aid the economy. The following is Representative Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

» HOYER PANS HOUSE GOP TAX PLAN, May 02, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement today regarding the House GOP tax plan and President Bush’s Silicon Valley remarks...

» HOYER BLASTS DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROPOSAL THAT LIMITS FEDERAL EMPLOYEE RIGHTS, April 29, 2003 WASHINGTON - House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding the Defense Department proposal recently submitted to Congress which would dramatically relax provisions that protect the rights of federal employees. The House Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization considered this proposal in a hearing today...

» Hoyer: Senate GOP’s Silence Countenances Outrageous Comments by Sen. Santorum, April 25, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today regarding Sen. Rick Santorum’s disparaging comments towards gay Americans and the Senate Republican leadership’s failure to rebuke him...

» EARTH DAY IS DAY TO FOCUS ON OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE, April 21, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in celebration of the 33rd anniversary of Earth Day...

» President Clings to Ill-Conceived Tax Plan Even as Republicans Balk and Economy Flounders, April 15, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC -- House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement regarding President Bush's comments in the Rose Garden today promoting his tax plan...

» HOYER & BLUE DOGS WARN REPUBLICAN RED INK WILL SINK AMERICA’S FUTURE, April 10, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) and leaders of the Blue Dog Coalition expressed deep concern today with the Republican leadership, who is poised to increase America’s debt limit without a separate vote, any debate, or a fiscally responsible budget in place. The following is Congressman Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

» THE MEN AND WOMEN WE HONOR, REMEMBER, April 10, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) made the following statement today at a “Rally for the Troops” in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol (as prepared for delivery)...

» GOP Pulls Tax Bill Off Schedule Rather than Risk Another Embarrassing Floor Defeat, April 09, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement this morning after the Republican leadership announced that it had pulled the “Taxpayer Protection and IRS Accountability Act of 2003” (H.R. 1538) off the Suspension Calendar today...

» Republican Reconciliation Proposal Is a Cry of Desperation – and a Farce!, April 09, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today regarding reports that House and Senate GOP leaders would write two tax reconciliation numbers into the Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2004...

» REPUBLICANS AND RED INK, April 08, 2003 This week, the House and Senate are expected to consider the 2004 Budget Conference Report (H Con Res 95). Once Congress adopts a conference report on its fiscal year 2004 budget resolution, the House is deemed to have passed a stand-alone bill to increase the debt limit and the issue is immediately kicked to the Senate. This means that if the House and Senate clear the 2004 Budget this week, Congress could send the President a bill to increase the nation’s debt limit before leaving for Spring recess – and a vote wouldn’t even be required...

» Hoyer: Job Losses Continue to Pile Up As the American Economy Continues to Flounder, April 04, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today after the U.S. Department of Labor reported that employers cut 108,000 jobs from their payrolls in March...

» In the Face of Sure Defeat, GOP Tries to Turn a Sow’s Ear Into a Silk Purse, April 02, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following today in an effort to set the record straight in the face of Republicans spinning themselves into a fury to justify their remarkable turnaround on the motion to instruct on the fiscal year 2004 budget yesterday...

» THIN SKIN, SHORT MEMORIES PLAGUE GOP LEADERS, April 02, 2003 With the United States now at war to disarm Saddam Hussein, some Republicans continue to question the patriotism of anyone who has the audacity to challenge the Bush Administration’s foreign policy...

» Hoyer: In Major Win for Democrats, House GOP Walks Away from Its Own Budget, April 01, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after House Republicans switched from opposition to the Democratic motion to instruct conferees on the fiscal year 2004 budget to support in the middle of debate on the Floor...

» HOUSE GOP BUDGET: TAKING A WALK OFF THE DEEP END, March 31, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) and House Democratic leaders today denounced the reckless and damaging Republican budget resolution and promoted a motion to instruct the budget conferees to reject cuts in education, healthcare, and veterans’ programs. The following is Congressman Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

» Hoyer: Republican Majority Shutting Down Democratic Debate Again on Small Pox Compensation Fund, March 31, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today regarding the House Republican Leadership’s refusal to allow a Democratic alternative to H.R. 1463, the Small Pox Vaccination Compensation Fund Act ...

» HOYER, OBERSTAR, AIRLINES MEET TO DISCUSS CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSE TO INDUSTRY’S WOES, March 27, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) and Transportation Committee Ranking Member Jim Oberstar (MN) meet with representatives of the airline companies today to discuss government assistance to the airline industry. Representatives DeFazio and Lipinski also participated in the meeting...

» Hoyer: Senate Vote Could be the Death-Knell for Bush Tax Plan, March 25, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today regarding the Senate vote to cut the Bush tax plan in half...

» Hoyer: Democratic Unity on Budget is a Sign of Good Things to Come, March 21, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today regarding the votes in the U.S. House last night on the 2004 Republican Budget Resolution and the Democratic alternative...

» House Democratic Whip Hoyer Says Nation Stands United Behind Our Troops, March 20, 2003 Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), the House Democratic Whip, released the following statement today regarding our military efforts to disarm Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein...

» Democratic Whip Hoyer: Republicans Calling Daschle Comments Partisan Are Hypocritical, March 19, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to criticism by Republican leaders of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle...

 

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