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» HOYER ON NEA AMENDMENT, July 17, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement on the Slaughter-Shays-Dicks-Leach Amendment to fiscal year 2004 Interior Appropriations Bill...

» Democratic Unity Prompts House GOP to Pull Ill-Advised Head Start Bill, July 16, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement tonight after the House Republican leadership pulled the “School Readiness Act of 2003" (H.R. 2210), which reauthorized the Head Start program, from consideration on the House Floor this week...

» HOYER, HEAD START KIDS TELL REPUBLICANS: “HEAD START WORKS!”, July 16, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), Education Committee Ranking Democrat Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Education Reform Subcommittee Ranking Democrat Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Education Committee Members Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ), Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX), and Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) along with children who participate in Head Start, today held a press conference to criticize the Republican bill to dismantle and undermine the hugely successful Head Start program. The following is Rep. Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

» HOYER ON $450 BILLION DEFICIT, July 15, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to news reports that the budget deficit for fiscal year 2003 is expected to exceed $450 billion dollars according to White House estimates, which is 50 percent higher than the Administration’s forecast 5 months ago and nearly $50 billion more than economists anticipated just last week...

» HOYER URGES SUPPORT FOR UNFPA AND HEALTHCARE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, July 15, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) spoke today on the House Floor in opposition to the Smith/Hyde amendment to strip the Crowley amendment from the State Department Authorization bill (H.R. 1950), which reinstated desperately needed funding to the United Nations Population Fund. The funding is crucial for health care and education to improve the health of women and their families, and to address rapid population growth...

» DEMOCRATS VOTE TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE Rx DRUG BENEFIT TO ALL SENIORS, URGE REPUBLICANS TO DO THE SAME, July 14, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in support of the Democratic Motion to Instruct Conferees on the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill. The motion would instruct conferees to support the Senate-passed provision requiring a federal “fallback” prescription drug benefit to protect all seniors, and reject turning Medicare into an expensive, undependable voucher program...

» HOYER ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR CHILE AND SINGAPORE FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS, July 14, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this morning announcing his support for free trade agreements with Chile and Singapore...

» 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: REPUBLICANS FLUNK EDUCATION 101 FOR AMERICA’S CHILDREN, July 10, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) assailed the House Republican cuts to education and America’s schools on the House floor today. Breaking promises, Republicans removed needed funding for essential programs such as Title I, No Child Left Behind, health and science research, and job training. The following is Rep. Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

» HOYER ON LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS, July 09, 2003 WASHINGTON - House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement today after the House passed the fiscal year 2004 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill...

» Hoyer: GOP Head Start Plan Undermines Quality of Services to Low Income Children, July 07, 2003 WASHINGTON - House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), released the following statement today in response to President Bush’s visit to Highland Park Elementary School in Landover, Maryland. The House Republican Head Start plan, endorsed by the President, would turn a successful, federal-to-local program into a state-led experiment on low-income children...

» AS UNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES, HOUSE WHIP CRITICIZES FAILED BUSH ECONOMIC PLAN, July 03, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this morning after the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the unemployment rate rose to 6.4 percent in June and the economy lost 30,000 jobs last month...

» House Democrats on Edge of Forcing Vote on Fair Pay for Disabled Veterans, June 26, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after House Democrats succeeded in collecting 200 signatures on a “discharge petition” on the “Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2003" (H.R. 303)...

» HOYER AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE BENEFITS TO “TEMPORARY” AOC WORKERS PASSES, June 26, 2003 WASHINGTON – The House Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment today to the fiscal year 2004 Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill, which was offered by House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) to require the Architect of the Capital (AOC) to act immediately to provide basic worker benefits to ‘temporary’ workers...

» SENIORS, HOYER, AND DEMOCRATS ASSAIL FAILED REPUBLICAN MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION, June 26, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), Democratic members, and senior advocacy groups today attacked the controversial and complicated House Republican Medicare plan, which will force seniors to leave doctors they trust and will not guarantee benefits or premiums. The following is Rep. Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

» 160 HOUSE DEMOCRATS URGE PRESIDENT TO PERSONALLY INTERVENE TO RESOLVE CHILD TAX CREDIT STALEMATE IMMEDIATELY, June 25, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer organized 160 House Democrats...

» HOYER LAUDS INCLUSION OF ELECTION REFORM DISABILITY FUNDS IN LABOR, HEALTH BILL, June 25, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today following the Full Appropriations Committee Markup of the Fiscal Year 2004 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill, which contained $15 million total for election reform disability programs including State Access Grants ($13 million) and Protection and Advocacy programs ($2 million)...

» HOYER ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY BILL: A One Billion Dollar Trade-Off, June 24, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement today in support of the Obey amendment that would have added roughly $1 billion to the Fiscal Year 2004 Homeland Security Appropriations bill for key security vulnerabilities by slightly decreasing the amount the tax cut people making over $1 million a year would receive. The 200,000 people with incomes over $1 million would have their 2004 tax cut reduced from $88,326 to $83,326. The FY04 Homeland Security bill is expected to pass the House today...

» HOYER, DEMOCRATS ATTACK HOUSE GOP MEDICARE PLAN FOR HURTING RURAL SENIORS, June 24, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), along with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA), other Democratic House members, and Frank Clemente of Public Citizen today announced the results of a study by Public Citizen which demonstrates how the complicated Republican plan to provide prescription drug coverage through private insurance plans could leave America’s seniors, especially rural seniors, with NO coverage...

» HOUSE DEMOCRATIC WHIP HOYER ON THE SUPREME COURT RULING UPHOLDING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, June 23, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after the Supreme Court ruling upholding the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions process that permits race to be taken into consideration as one factor among many when selecting incoming students...

» HOYER ON Fiscal Year 2004 LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BILL:, June 19, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), a senior member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, released the following statement today at the subcommittee markup of the fiscal year 2004 funding bill...

» HOYER ON HOUSE MEDICARE Rx BILL, June 19, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding the House Republican prescription drug bill that is expected to be approved by the two committees of jurisdiction by the end of this week (Ways and Means on Tuesday and Energy and Commerce today)...

» HOYER: GOP NEEDS TO ACT, NOT RUN OUT THE CLOCK ON CHILD TAX CREDIT, June 19, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – As the House readied to adjourn until Monday, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding the Republican Party’s failure to act this week on extending the child tax credit increase to 12 million children of working and military families. A unified House Democratic Caucus also used various parliamentary procedures on the House Floor this week to try to pass the Senate passed child tax credit expansion bill and send it straight to the President. Republicans blocked every attempt...

» 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 ON SENATE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERSONNEL SYSTEM BILL, June 17, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, a leader in the House of Representatives on federal employee issues, released the following statement today regarding Senator Collins’s bill to reform the Department of Defense personnel system which was marked up in committee today...

 

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