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» The Clock is Ticking as Democrats Pressure Republicans to Increase Child Tax Credit for Working and Military Families, June 24, 2003 Statements by Hoyer and Rangel. |
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» 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... |
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» 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... |
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» Week of June 23, 2003, June 23, 2003 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill for FY 2004, Military Construction Appropriations Bill for FY 2004, Prescription Drug and Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, Medical Savings Account Act |
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» Democrats Aim to Hold Jewish Vote, June 19, 2003 House Democrats are pushing back against GOP efforts to woo Jewish voters, putting in place a broad campaign to remind members of the faith that they are best represented by the Democratic Party. |
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» 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... |
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» 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)... |
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» 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... |
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» 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)... |
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» Republican Tax Proposal, June 18, 2003 Hoyer why the Republican tax proposal is a bad idea |
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» 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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» Hoyer: Estate Tax Bill Demonstrates Precisely Where GOP’s Priorities Lie, June 17, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this afternoon in support of the Democratic substitute to H.R. 8, Republican legislation that would permanently repeal the estate tax. Representative Earl Pomeroy (ND) introduced the substitute earlier today at a press conference with Bill Gates, Sr. H.R. 8 will be considered on the House Floor on Wednesday... |
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» House Democratic Whip Hoyer Intends to Ask Republicans If They Really Know What Time It Is, June 16, 2003 On Monday, House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland unveiled for reporters the latest prop Democrats will try to use to point out what they regard as shortcomings of House Republicans... |
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» Week of June 16, 2003, June 16, 2003 Estate Tax Repeal Permanency Act, Taxpayer Protection and IRS Accountability Act |
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» How House Democrats Got Their Groove Back, June 14, 2003 When Sen. Blanche Lincoln was introduced at a June 11 caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol, House Democrats received her with a particularly boisterous ovation... |
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» House Democrats Push Republicans to Give Tax Relief to Working Families, June 13, 2003 Statements from Hoyer and Rangel. |
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» AT THE END OF THE DAY, HOUSE VOTES FOR SENATE CHILD TAX CREDIT BILL, June 12, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today following the House vote on the “motion to instruct conferees” (a non-binding motion that tells House members of the House-Senate conference committee how to work out differences between House and Senate bills) on the child tax credit bill. The motion instructed House conferees to report out the Senate bill, effectively adopting the Democratic position of dropping the House bill in favor of the Senate bill... |
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» 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... |
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» HOYER SAYS DEMOCRATS WILL FIGHT TO REPLACE HOUSE TAX PLOY WITH SENATE BILL, June 11, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding efforts to defeat the rule that will allow the child credit tax ploy unveiled last night by Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas to be considered on the House Floor on Thursday as expected, if the rule does not allow for consideration of the Senate passed bill. If the rule is defeated, House proponents of the bipartisan Senate bill to expand the child tax credit increase to include low-income working families will bring that bill to the Floor, quickly pass it and immediately send it to the President to become law... |
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» HOYER: “QUIT PLAYING POLITICS WITH THE CHILD TAX CREDIT AND JUST DO IT”, June 10, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this evening in response to the House Republican child tax credit bill released late today: |
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» Hoyer: President Fails to Make the Grade on Leaving No Child Behind, June 10, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today concerning the Bush Administration’s failure to fund the “No Child Left Behind Act”... |
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» Week of June 9, 2003, June 09, 2003 Class Action Fairness Act |
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» Democrats Win One Battle, June 08, 2003 Washington - Union pressure, rare harmony among most House Democrats and a coterie of labor-friendly Republicans led by Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) threw the House Republican leadership off their game last week and deep-sixed a bill that would have loosened overtime pay laws... |
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» 'Family Friendly' Bill to Foster Comp Time Flexibility Gets Laid Off House Schedule, June 07, 2003 House Republican leaders returned from the Memorial Day recess confident that two days was plenty of time to beat back a months-long effort by organized labor to stop passage of legislation allowing employers to grant time off, instead of extra pay, when employees work overtime... |
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» HOYER ON CONTINUED RISE IN UNEMPLOYMENT, June 06, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s announcement that the nation’s unemployment rate continued to climb upwards to 6.1 percent, the highest unemployment rate in 9 years. The country has lost 3.1 million jobs under President Bush, the worst job creation performance of any president in recent history... |
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