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» HOYER INTRODUCES BILL TO SUPPORT FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, June 15, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer today met with leading advocates of full-service community schools to discuss his introduction of the “Full-Service Community Schools Act.”
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» REPUBLICANS’ PHONY “ENERGY WEEK” FIZZLES, June 15, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding the three energy bills considered on the House Floor today and the two energy bills that are expected to be considered on Wednesday:
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» HOYER STATEMENT ON THE ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 2004, June 14, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in support of the Improving Access to Assistive Technology for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004:
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» Week of June 14, 2004, June 14, 2004 Energy Bills, Homeland Security Appropriations, Interior Appropriations...
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» Week of June 14, 2004, June 14, 2004 re-scheduled Energy Week...
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» HOYER: SUPPORT ALL HUMAN RIGHTS DURING GAY AND LESBIAN PRIDE MONTH, June 09, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement in recognition of June as National Gay and Lesbian Pride Month:
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» Tax Legislation Worthy Only of The Trash Heap, June 09, 2004 If Republicans really want to honor the memory of Ronald Reagan, they should toss in the trash the corporate tax legislation making its way through Congress...
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» RONALD WILSON REAGAN: A LEGACY NOT WITHOUT COMPLICATION, June 08, 2004 WASHINGTON - House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) will deliver the following statement this evening on the House Floor (as prepared for delivery)...
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» HOYER STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, June 07, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today on the death of President Ronald Reagan:
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» Week of June 7, 2004, June 07, 2004 Energy Week...
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» GOP's Rehashing of Old Legislation Angers Democrats, June 06, 2004 The tactic goes by several names: Déjà Vu, Play it Again, Summer Reruns. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) prefers "the cow agenda," saying House Republican leaders regurgitate previously passed bills, then force lawmakers to chew and swallow them again.
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» House Into Summer Reruns With GOP’s Procedural Gambit , June 05, 2004 Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., the minority whip, dismisses the current House Republican agenda as “cud,” the regurgitated food that cows chew a second time. More politely, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calls it “warmed-over stew.”
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» Hoyer Knows Music, June 05, 2004 Music industry folk outside of the Beltway might view Steny Hoyer as a dark horse for the co-chairmanship of the new Congressional Recordings Arts and Sciences caucus.
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» HOUSE DEMOCRATS DECRY SHIFT OF BIOTERRORISM FUNDS, June 04, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) today released a letter from 19 House Democrats to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, stating opposition to the Bush Administration’s decision to “reprogram”, or move funds from state and local bioterrorism preparedness. The Administration has indicated it will shift $55 million in Fiscal 2004 bioterrorism preparedness funding away from the State and Local Bioterrorism Preparedness to other initiatives. The text of the letter is below:

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» HOYER: JOB REPORT IS GOOD NEWS, BUT WE MUST GUARD AGAINST IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE, June 04, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this morning regarding the Department of Labor’s Employment Report for May, which showed the economy gained 248,000 jobs last month but the unemployment rate remained stubbornly stuck at 5.6 percent:
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» Whip Smart, June 04, 2004 In his third-floor office in the Capitol, Steny Hoyer is plunked down in a big red armchair, his left leg crossed over his right. He is wearing a dazzlingly white shirt and a red patterned tie. There are two pens in his breast pockets and visions of grandeur dancing in his head.
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» Democrats See South Dakota Win as Turning Point, June 03, 2004 Democrats celebrated Stephanie Herseth's capture of a Republican-held House seat in South Dakota on Wednesday and claimed it portends greater gains in the battle for control of Congress.
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» Hoyer Campaigns for Other Democrats , June 03, 2004 Trying to win his 13th term as Southern Maryland's congressman, U.S. Rep. Steny H. Hoyer crisscrossed the 5th District in typical whirlwind fashion last week, on one day stopping for events in White Plains, Bowie and College Park before heading back to Washington.
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» The Republicans’ Fiscal Flip-Flop, June 03, 2004 report from the Democratic Whip's office...
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» Democrats Eye Fall ‘Contract’, June 02, 2004 Adopting a tactic their party bashed as a stunt in the watershed 1994 elections, House Democrats plan to unveil their election-year themes by rolling out a “Contract with America”-style legislative blueprint in September.
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» Democrats Hope S.D. Win Is Fall Harbinger, June 02, 2004 Democrats celebrated Stephanie Herseth's capture of a Republican-held seat in South Dakota on Wednesday, their second takeaway of the year, and claimed it portends greater gains in the battle for control of Congress.
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» Democrats Pick Up U.S. House Seat With Victory in South Dakota , June 02, 2004 Democrats won a Republican-held House of Representatives seat in a special election in South Dakota.
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» HOYER STATEMENT ON RULING THAT PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, June 02, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, the lead Democratic sponsor of the Late-Term Abortion Restriction Act, released the following statement today following a ruling by a U.S. District Court that the recently enacted “partial-birth” abortion ban was unconstitutional:
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» HOYER: BUSH OFFERS WARMED OVER PLATITUDES RATHER THAN A PLAN FOR SUCCESS, June 02, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding comments by President Bush at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado:
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» STUDY SHOWS REPUBLICAN TAX “CUTS” WILL ACTUALLY INCREASE TAXES , June 02, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement in response to an important study released today at a press conference with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). The joint report examines the effects of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, illustrating that while wealthy taxpayers benefited from the tax cuts, low- and middle-income households are likely to lose significantly once costs of the tax cuts are paid for:

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