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» HOYER RELEASES REPORT ON WHITE HOUSE POLITICAL APPOINTEE BONUSES, July 10, 2003
WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement today regarding a report by the Office of Personnel Management on cash bonuses awarded to political appointees by the White House. Mr. Hoyer requested the report 8 months ago, on December 10, 2002. The report details, by agency, the number of political appointees who are eligible to receive cash award and the average salaries of those employees; a list, by agency, of the number of political appointees who received within -grade increases in 2002; and a list, by agency, of the numbers and amounts of cash awards granted to political appointees during that same period...
» Hoyer: Ending Medicare as We Know It, June 26, 2003
WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) made the following statement tonight on the House Floor regarding the competing Democratic and Republican bills to provide a prescription drug benefit to seniors...
» HOYER: “Today in this House 130 million citizens are effectively having their voices silenced”, June 23, 2003
WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) delivered the following statement before the Subcommittee on Technology and the House of the Rules Committee regarding the undemocratic manner in which the House Republican Majority is using the Rules Committee to stifle in the House...
» HOYER ON THE ESTATE TAX REPEAL, June 18, 2003
WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) made the following statement today on the House Floor in opposition to H.R. 8 and in support of the Pomeroy substitute to reform the estate tax (as prepared for delivery)...
» HOYER: REPUBLICANS ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM, June 12, 2003
WASHINGTON D.C. – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) spoke on the floor today in response to the shameful Republican attempt to stonewall immediate tax relief for working Americans. The following is Rep. Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...
» STANDING WITH ISRAEL, June 03, 2003
Speech by Whip Hoyer to the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee on the Middle East conflict.
» What Do You Stand For?, May 23, 2003
WASHINGTON - House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement regarding the Republican tax scheme that passed the House early this morning...
» DEMOCRATS MUST UNITE, FIGHT AND CONTINUE TO DO WHAT’S RIGHT, May 17, 2003
Oklahoma City, OK - House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer delivered the Oklahoma Democratic Party Convention’s Carl Albert Dinner Keynote Address in Oklahoma City, OK this Saturday, May 17th...
» Congressman Hoyer's Statement on the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS Act, May 01, 2003
mr. speaker, the great doctor martin luther king junior once said: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly...”
» America's Hospitals: The Key to Healthy Communities, April 28, 2003
What makes a community, whether large or small, really great? Obvious answers come to mind. Top-flight schools. A vibrant local economy. An educated workforce. Clean parks and safe streets. And, of course, a first-rate hospital and health care...
» Hoyer Statement on H.R. 6 Energy Policy Act of 2003, April 10, 2003
Mr. Speaker, this legislation is a comprehensive energy bill, but an incomplete energy policy...
» The American-Israel Relationship: An Unbreakable Bond, March 30, 2003
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer spoke on Sunday, March 30 to leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who were in Washington this week for their annual policy conference...
» At Diplomacy's End, March 12, 2003
Sixty years ago, as darkness and destruction gripped the European continent, and as the United States fought to liberate millions there and in the Far East, Winston Churchill delivered a compelling call for unity that continues to ring true today...
» Democrats Offer the States a Ray of Hope, February 25, 2003
I do not envy you. In the next few months, excruciating decisions must be made in virtually every state capital. As NGA's fiscal survey of states reported in November: "nearly every state is in fiscal crisis" ...
» Cardin Blasts House Gop Welfare Bill As Unfunded Mandate For States That Limits Job Training, Education, February 13, 2003
Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin today blasted House Republicans for bringing a welfare bill to the floor that "sabotages the 1996 welfare reform effort by making it much harder for states to provide education and job training to welfare recipients" ...
» Democratic Bill Continues Tough, Fair Reform, February 13, 2003
House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) made the following statement on the House Floor today regarding the Democratic alternative to the GOP welfare reform bill...
» Statement of Congressman Hoyer Condemning the Selection of Libya to Chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, February 11, 2003
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my good friends from Illinois and California, Chairman Hyde and ranking member Lantos, for bringing this very important resolution to the house floor. It's a moral imperative, and a matter of principle, that this house speak as one today...
» Spratt Says President's Budget Most Fiscally Damaging in U.S. History, February 03, 2003
U.S. Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) issued the following statement today on the President's Fiscal Year 2004 Budget
» Statement of Congressman Hoyer on the Omnibus Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2003, January 29, 2003
House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) made the following statement on the House Floor today regarding the Motion to go to Conference on the fiscal year 2003 Omnibus Appropriations Bill...
» Center On Budget And Policy Priorities, On President Bush's Announcement Regarding TANF Reauthorization, January 14, 2003
"The President's proposal freezes funding for basic assistance, welfare-to-work programs, and child care for the next five years, with no adjustment for inflation, while imposing expensive new mandates on states...
» Statement on Election as Democratic Whip, November 14, 2002
Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today upon election by unanimous acclamation as the new House Democratic Whip ...

 

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