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» DEMOCRATS WHO SUPPORTED IRAQ FUNDS WRITE TO PRESIDENT WITH CONCERNS, October 23, 2003 Letter to President Bush from House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Representatives Rahm Emanuel (IL), Howard Berman (CA), Harold Ford (TN), Martin Frost (TX), Baron Hill (IN), Darlene Hooley (OR), Charlie Stenholm (TX), and Ellen Tauscher (CA.)
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» Foes Hope to Block Bush Plan for Limiting Detailees in Congress, October 23, 2003 T wo area House members said yesterday they would offer an amendment to block the Bush administration from tightening control over government employees assigned to work in Congress...
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» Locked Out of Conferences, Democrats Start to Retaliate, October 23, 2003 Democrats frustrated about being excluded from final negotiations on energy and Medicare legislation are striking back by blocking less prominent bills and accusing the GOP of abusing its majority power...
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» Focus on ‘Home Front’, October 22, 2003 Seeking to score late-round political points as Republicans struggle to find an exit strategy, Congressional Democrats are mounting a four-week offensive to bring attention to what they say is the failure of President Bush and the GOP to address key domestic concerns.
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» GOP Trying to Snuff Out Iraqi Loans Idea, October 22, 2003 The White House predicted Wednesday that a final $87 billion measure for Iraq and Afghanistan won't make the Iraqi rebuilding aid a loan, despite signs of continued support for the idea in Congress.
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» HOYER, WOLF PLAN ACTION TO STOP NEW OPM RULE AFFECTING FEDERAL DETAILEES ON THE HIL, October 22, 2003 WASHINGTON - House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) and Congressman Frank Wolf announced today that they will offer an amendment during the 2004 Transportation, Treasury Appropriations Conference that would prohibit the use of appropriated funds to implement the Office of Personnel Management's proposed regulations affecting the deployment of Executive Branch detailees to the legislative branch. Hoyer and Wolf’s amendment states that no federal funds may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule of the Office of Personnel Management relating to the detailing of executive branch employees to the legislative branch.

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» Bait-and-Switch on Public Education, October 21, 2003 Congressional Republicans are nervous about a G.O.P. poll that shows them losing ground over education.
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» Week of October 20, 2003, October 20, 2003 H.J.Res. 73 - Making Further Appropriations, Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003, Child Tax Credit, Energy Policy Act of 2003, Supplemental Appropriations Act for FY04.
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» Democrats Riled by GOP's Efforts To Cut Deals on Air Privatization, October 18, 2003 Nearly three months after House and Senate conferees hurriedly agreed to a four-year, $59.2 billion reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the legislation is still mired in a largely partisan dispute over privatization of airport control towers.
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» ECONOMY CONTINUES TO SPUTTER, PRESIDENT OFFERS NO NEW IDEAS TO REV IT UP, October 17, 2003 Statements by Hoyer and Spratt, and economic reports
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» GOP’S FAA-NIMBY SYNDROME, October 16, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) today released the following statement in response to a press report in Aviation Daily that House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Mica is going to remove air traffic control towers in Republican districts from the privatization list in order to buy off votes for the FAA Reauthorization Conference Report...

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» House votes for Syria sanctions, October 16, 2003 The House voted yesterday to impose sanctions on Syria that would prohibit it from buying dual-use technology and that could restrict diplomatic and economic ties until the nation ends its weapons programs and ties to terrorism.
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» Hoyer Rises in Support of $87 Billion War Supplemental, October 16, 2003 We must give our troops in the field who have performed brilliantly in deposing the despotic Taliban and Hussein regimes...
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» HOYER STATEMENT ON THE $87 BILLION IRAQ SUPPLEMENTAL, October 16, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer delivered the following statement today on the $87 billion Iraq supplemental currently being debated...
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» HOYER: TEXAS IS LATEST EXAMPLE OF GOP RIGHT-WING POLITICAL POWER GRAB, October 16, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) today released the following statement requesting that the Department of Justice apply a fair and non-partisan evaluation of the new Republican-drawn Texas redistricting map...
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» OBEY SUBSTITUTE TO IRAQ SUPPLEMENTAL BILL, October 16, 2003 On October 15, Rep. Obey, Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, went to the Rules Committee and sought to have his Democratic substitute to the Iraq Supplemental bill made in order by the rule. The Obey substitute does more than the GOP bill to support our troops and encourages international participation in stabilizing and rebuilding Iraq. And the substitute does so at less cost to middle-class taxpayers...

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» PRESIDENT AGAIN BLAMES “INHERITED” RECESSION, CORPORATE AMERICA, TERRORISTS, October 16, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to President Bush’s second speech in California as in many days on the economy...
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» HOYER LAUDS JEWISH COMMUNITY, CREATION OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY MONTH, October 15, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) today spoke on the House floor in support of the American Jewish community and the designation of “American Jewish History Month.” The following is Rep. Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...
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» Hoyer on President Bush’s California Speech, October 15, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to President George Bush’s economic speech in Dinuba, California...
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» HOYER: STRONG SANCTIONS WILL DETER TERRORISTS, October 15, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) today spoke out on the House Floor in favor of H.R. 1828, the bipartisan Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act, which would impose sanctions and other penalties on Syria. The following is Rep. Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...
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» Week of October 13, 2003, October 13, 2003 Energy Bill, Child Tax Credit Bill, Republican Prescription Drug Bill, Supplemental Appropriations
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» House committee approves $87 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan, October 09, 2003 A House committee handed a victory to President Bush on Thursday by approving nearly $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan and fending off lawmakers who wanted Iraq to eventually repay some of the aid.
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» HOYER ADDS ACCOUNTABILITY TO IRAQ SUPPLEMENTAL, October 09, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, successfully amended the 2004 Iraq Supplemental Appropriations bill today in the full House Committee mark-up to require greater accountability on such areas as the money spent and progress made in Iraq and Afghanistan and the effect the war is having on our troops and readiness, as well as language requiring advanced review of the awarding of no-bid contracts. Congressman Hoyer released the following statement regarding his amendments...

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» Hoyer Decries Drug Bills' Deficiencies, October 09, 2003 Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) strode into the Richard R. Clark Senior Center in La Plata on Monday and told a room full of seniors that if they were hoping for a good prescription drug law from Congress, they were pretty much out of luck.
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» HOYER TO OFFER IRAQ SUPPLEMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY AMENDMENTS, October 09, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, will offer two amendments at today’s House Appropriations Committee mark-up of the fiscal year 2004 Iraq Supplemental bill. The first amendment requires quarterly reports that provide accountability in past and future spending, detail progress in reconstruction and obtaining international assistance, and estimate expected future costs, among other items. The second requires advanced review of no-bid contracts, rather than after-the-fact review. Congressman Hoyer released the following statement regarding his amendments...

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