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» HOYER OBSERVES BIRTHDAY OF CHRISTA MCAULIFFE, SPACE PIONEER, September 02, 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement in observance today of the birthday of Christa McAuliffe, the first participant in the NASA Teacher in Space program. Her inaugural flight was on the Challenger space shuttle on January 28, 1986. McAuliffe, along with six other crew members, died when the Challenger exploded after launch... |
» HOYER HONORS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON, August 28, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today in observance of the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington, which was the first national civil rights demonstration and a pivotal event in the struggle for equality for black Americans... |
» HOYER: NO BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR MEDICARE, July 30, 2003 WASHINGTON – Today marks 38 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson fulfilled his promise to seniors and signed the landmark bill that established the Medicare program. In recognition of this anniversary, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this afternoon and vowed to keep the Democrats’ promise to strengthen the program by adding a prescription drug benefit under Medicare that seniors can count on... |
» Democrats, Seniors Gather for Over 70 Rx Drug Town Hall Meetings from Maine to California, July 28, 2003 Statement by Whip Hoyer, as well as many articles from around the country. |
» HOYER: ON 13TH ANNIVERSARY OF ADA, PROMISE STILL UNFULFILLED, July 28, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in honour of the 13th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Rep. Hoyer was the lead House sponsor of the Act, which was signed by the first President Bush... |
» HOUSE DEMOCRATIC WHIP HOYER ON HEAD START: HEAD START WORKS!, July 25, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) delivered the following statement last night on the House Floor during debate on the reauthorization of the Head Start program (H.R. 2210). All House Democrats voted against the misguided bill, which passed by one vote (217-216)... |
» HOYER MEETS WITH INDUSTRY, LABOR REGARDING FSC/ETI , DECIDES TO COSPONSOR CRANE-RANGEL LEGISLATION, July 25, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement after meeting with representatives of manufacturing companies and organized labor to discuss the foreign sales corporation/extraterritorial income (FSC/ETI) issue... |
» As House Prepares for August Recess, Hoyer Lauds Democrats for Unity, July 24, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement and an accompanying chart on Democratic unity in the 108th Congress today... |
» HOYER STATEMENT ON OFFICERS CHESTNUT AND GIBSON, July 24, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding the moment of silence memorializing Officers Chestnut and Gibson.. |
» HOYER: FREE TRADE CAN LIFT ALL BOATS, July 24, 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) today released the following statement in support of the United States-Singapore/Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Acts... |
» HOYER ON STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN THOMAS, July 23, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today following Chairman Bill Thomas’s statement on the House Floor regarding his conduct on Friday, July 18th during a Ways and Means mark-up... |
» HOUSE DEMOCRATS KICKOFF NATIONAL DAY OF Rx DRUG TOWN HALL MEETINGS, July 18, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement at the Kick Off for Democrats’ National Day of Prescription Drug Town Hall Meetings (Saturday, July 19th), on which over 70 members in 27 states will hold town hall meetings with seniors in their districts... |
» Hoyer Decries Outrageous Treatment of Ways and Means Committee Democrats, July 18, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement this afternoon after Rep. Bill Thomas (R-CA), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, called the Capitol Police and ordered officers to remove Ways and Means Democrats from a Committee library in the Longworth House Office Building... |
» 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... |
» 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: 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...” |
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