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Hoyer Floor Statement on Preventing Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons Capability
May 15, 2012

I thank the Gentleman from California for yielding and for his leadership on this issue.  Rep. Howard Berman has been the leader in Congress when it comes to reminding us how important it is to prevent the rise of a nuclear Iran. He has been instrumental in securing funding for the deployment of the “Iron Dome” anti-missile system to counter the threat from Iranian-supplied short-range rockets in the hands of terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
Hoyer Floor Statement on GOP Budget Reconciliation Bill
May 10, 2012

Mr. Speaker, the challenging times we live in force us to make difficult choices about our priorities. The reconciliation bill before us today is an example of choosing the wrong priorities.
Hoyer Floor Statement on GOP Budget Reconciliation Bill That Targets Federal Employees
May 10, 2012

First of all, federal employees have contributed $75 billion over the last two years towards helping us reduce the deficit – $75 billion. No other working American has been asked to do that. You treat federal employees in this House as second-class working people. That's wrong. This is a 5% tax increase on federal employees. Nobody else. Nobody else do we ask. The richest people in America, we don't ask them to help solve this deficit problem.
Hoyer Floor Statement on United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012
May 9, 2012

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank my friend for yielding. I have known Mr. Berman for almost half a century. He has been an extraordinary leader, as a young person, as Chairman of this committee, as Ranking Member on this committee. And I want to thank him for his leadership on this issue. He has been instrumental. I want to thank my dear friend in whose district I used to live so many years ago, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, thank her for her leadership and her commitment. She's been a stalwart.
Hoyer Floor Statement on Reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank
May 9, 2012

I’m pleased to be here today. We are here as the result of some work by some extraordinary staff people, and I want to start by mentioning them. First of all I want to congratulate and thank Mr. Miller and his staff. I want to thank the staff of the Banking Committee. Mr. John Hughes of my staff, formerly of the Banking Committee, and the Financial Services Committee has worked tirelessly with an extraordinary policy director, Neal Bradley, who works for Mr. Cantor. We have worked on this matter in a bipartisan fashion.

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