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» Hoyer Says Political Trends Moving House Dems' Way, July 22, 2004 House Minority Whip Hoyer said Wednesday that positive generic polling numbers, promising Democratic candidates and an unproductive Republican-controlled Congress would boost Democratic chances of taking the House.
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» HOYER STATEMENT ON EXTREME GOP BILL TO BAR FEDERAL COURTS FROM CONSIDERING CONSTITUTIONALITY OF FEDERAL LEGISLATION, July 22, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) made the following statement today on the House Floor during debate on H.R. 3313, which would bar Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from considering the constitutionality of Federal legislation:
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» HOYER STATEMENT ON EXTREME GOP BILL TO BAR FEDERAL COURTS FROM CONSIDERING CONSTITUTIONALITY OF FEDERAL LEGISLATION, July 22, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) made the following statement today on the House Floor during debate on H.R. 3313, which would bar Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from considering the constitutionality of Federal legislation:
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» Hoyer: 9/11 Report Is a Call to Action that Must Not Be Ignored , July 22, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding the final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission:
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» Hoyer: 9/11 Report Is a Call to Action that Must Not Be Ignored , July 22, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding the final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission:
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» Light Duty?, July 22, 2004 Could it be that House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., secretly wants a lame-duck session?
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» Hoyer: Republicans Have Only Made the Tax Code More Complex and Unfair, July 21, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement regarding House Republicans’ “Tax Reform and Simplification Week,” the highlight of which was consideration of two non-controversial, minor tax bills today that will do little to reduce the incredible complexity of America’s tax system.
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» DEMOCRATS PUSH FOR ELECTRICITY RELIABILITY LEGISLATION TO PREVENT FUTURE BLACKOUTS, July 20, 2004 After nearly a year of urging the Republican leadership in the House to consider electricity reliability legislation to prevent another massive blackout, Democrats today launched a discharge petition to try to force consideration of H.R. 3004, the “Electricity Reliability Improvement Act of 2003.”
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» Democrats Set to Assail Do-Nothing GOP Congress, July 20, 2004 With the Democratic National Convention just a week away, the mood of Congressional Democrats heading into their all-important political rally verges on the smug.
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» Democrats Try To Push Reliability Standards But Lack Support, July 20, 2004 House Democrats will offer a discharge petition today in an attempt to force floor consideration of mandatory electricity reliability standards.
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» Amendment Would Make Next Year's Civil Service Pay Raises Equal to Military's , July 19, 2004 Eight Washington area House members have announced plans to offer an amendment that would ensure civil service employees get the same raise next year as the military -- 3.5 percent.
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» Pay parity amendment set for this week , July 19, 2004 A senior Democratic lawmaker will introduce an amendment later this week to grant federal civilian employees the same 3.5 percent pay raise that military personnel will receive in 2005.
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» Week of July 19, 2004, July 19, 2004 Appropriations, Trade, and Taxes
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» Week of July 19, 2004, July 19, 2004 Military Construction Appropriations, Defense Appropriations, "tax simplification week" ...
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» Hoyer Meets With Anti-Bush Defense Group, July 16, 2004 House Minority Whip Hoyer met today with members of the recently formed Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, an organization dedicated to the electoral defeat of President Bush made up of a bipartisan group of 27 former government and military officials.
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» Dems call for simpler taxes, July 15, 2004 House Democrats plan to take the argument for tax simplification to voters this fall, thus venturing into traditional Republican territory.
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» Emanuel Statement on Republican Failures on the Budget, July 15, 2004 U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) released the following statement today at a press conference highlighting Republican failures on the budget with Assistant to the Leader / Budget Committee Ranking Member John Spratt, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and Blue Dog Coalition Co-Chair Charlie Stenholm.
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» HOYER A-76 CONTRACTING OUT AMENDMENT ADOPTED BY TRANSPORTATION – TREASURY SUBCOMMITTEE, July 15, 2004 The House Transportation, Treasury Subcommittee accepted an amendment by House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) today in subcommittee markup of the Fiscal Year 2005 Transportation, Treasury Appropriations Bill that will correct two serious deficiencies in the most recent A-76 revisions. Those revisions, which were adopted on May 29, 2003, put federal employees at a competitive disadvantage and did not guarantee that taxpayer money will be economically spent.

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» Hoyer: Republicans Still Not Living Up to Their Commitments on HIV/AIDS Funding, July 15, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement regarding House Republicans’ failure today to fund HIV/AIDS programs at levels previously supported by Republicans and authorized by law.
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» In Control, Republicans Fail to Produce Budget, Plan or Direction for America, July 15, 2004 The Mystery of the Missing Mid-Session Review...
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» The Mystery of the Missing Mid-Session Review, July 15, 2004 Statement of Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) on Missing Mid-Session Budget Review
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» UNDER GOP, BUDGET, BUDGET ENFORCEMENT, AND BUDGET REVIEW ALL GO MISSING, July 15, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer, joined by Budget Committee Ranking Member John Spratt (SC), Blue Dog Coalition Co-Chair Charlie Stenholm (D-TX), and Budget Committee Member Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), today assailed the Republican Congress and Bush Administration for failing to pass a budget for Fiscal Year 2005, a budget enforcement bill, or to produce a budget forecast as called for in U.S. Law.

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» Democrats' Challenge on Tax Complexity, July 14, 2004 House Democrats, led by Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, intend to make rising tax complexity an election year issue.
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» HOUSE WHIP HOYER SUPPORTS AUSTRALIA/U.S. FREE TRADE ACT, July 14, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer spoke on the House Floor today in favor of H.R. 4759, the United States-Australia Free Trade Implementation Act. The following is Representative Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery:
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» Hoyer Amendment to Prevent Another “Scully Scandal” Adopted, July 14, 2004 The House Appropriations Committee accepted by voice vote today an amendment introduced by House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) to the Fiscal Year 2005 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill that would prevent Health and Human Services officials from blocking the flow of information between the Office of the Medicare Actuary and Congress.

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