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» 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...
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» GOP thrust energizes Democrats, July 23, 2003 House Democrats head into the August recess furious at Republican leaders who they claim have crossed the acceptable boundaries of partisanship...
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» 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...
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» HOYER: 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS OF HOLDING THE CHILD TAX CREDIT HOSTAGE IS ENOUGH, July 23, 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) today urged Republicans to immediately accede to Senate-passed legislation to accelerate the child tax credit for millions of working American families and their children, as Democrats engaged in a series of procedural tactics on the House Floor designed to force the GOP to act on this important tax legislation before adjourning for the August District Work Period on Friday...

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» HOYER: REPUBLICANS SHOULD LISTEN TO SENIORS ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ISSUE, July 23, 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the House and Senate Republican Medicare bills, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement...
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» For Hoyer, Maintaining Unity in Face of Defeat, July 22, 2003 WASHINGTON - As the No. 2 Democratic leader in a House dominated by Republicans, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer is doomed to lose nearly every battle. But these days, he is earning credit for his party's rare victories and for keeping Democrats more united in defeat than at any time in recent memory...
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» Democratic Unity Prompts House GOP to Pull Ill-Advised Head Start Bill, July 21, 2003 Statements by Rep. Hoyer and Miller...
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» Week of July 21, 2003, July 21, 2003 School Readiness Act of 2003, Commerce-Justice-State Appropriations Bill for FY 2004,Child Tax Credit
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» Brown criticizes GOP on Medicare, July 20, 2003 U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown, D-Lorain, [Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)] had sympathetic ears when he championed a better Medicare plan for senior citizens on a visit Saturday to Akron...
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» Dems attack drug plan, July 20, 2003 RALEIGH -- North Carolina's Democratic congressional delegation has joined other lawmakers in attacking legislation that would add prescription drug coverage to Medicare...
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» Forum Alerts Retirees To Medicare Perils, July 20, 2003 EAST HARTFORD -- After listening to experts discuss the horrors of Congress' proposed changes to Medicare for two hours Saturday, 80-year-old Charles Casinghino had heard enough...
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» Rx benefit in Medicare bill is confusing, citizens say, July 20, 2003 The proposed law that would add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare is more confusing than promising, an audience of about 300 senior citizens told U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) [Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)] on Saturday...
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» Seniors express concerns at town hall session on drug coverage, July 20, 2003 Jack Duane, 78, of Denver is worried. He suspects his medical insurance provider is trying to dump him from his policy...
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» ...Dems, Allies Campaign Against Prescription Drug Bill, July 18, 2003 House Democrats today announced they would hold a "national day of prescription drug town hall meetings" in Democratic districts across the country Saturday to oppose the Republican approach to a Medicare benefit and to promote what they say is a more generous Democratic alternative...
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» 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...
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» 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...

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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...
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» Democratic Principles for Head Start, July 16, 2003 House Democrats support the following principles for this year’s reauthorization...
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» 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...
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» DEMOCRATS FIGHT FOR AFFORDABLE, GUARANTEED Rx DRUG BENEFIT, AGAINST HOUSE GOP BILL THAT IS WRONG PRESCRIPTION, July 16, 2003 Statements by Rep. Hoyer and Allen.
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» Head Start Fact Sheet, July 16, 2003 In 2002, Head Start served 902,653 children, including over 62,000 infants and toddlers in Early Head Start...
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» Head Start Vote Pulled From Friday's House Floor Schedule, July 16, 2003 Bowing to the concerns of their own caucus — along with expected absenteeism —House Republican leaders decided to pull a reauthorization of Head Start (HR 2210) from Friday's floor schedule...
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» 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...

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» Key Problems with Republican Head Start Bill, July 16, 2003 There are several key problems with the Republican Head Start Bill...
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» Statement by the Hon. George Miller - News Conference Regarding Republican Head Start Legislation, July 16, 2003 Congressman George Miller of California, the senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, appeared at a news conference today with Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, kids, and other members of Congress, to highlight their concerns with the GOP Head Start bill that is expected to be voted on by the House some time this week...

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