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» Majority Leader Hoyer: ADA Amendments Act Will Open Doors of Equality For All, June 25, 2008 Eighteen years ago next month, the first President Bush signed into law one of the most consequential pieces of civil rights legislation in recent memory.
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» Majority Leader Hoyer Statement on AMT, June 25, 2008 Every House Member agrees that we must prevent the alternative minimum tax (the AMT) from hitting millions of hard-working American families this year.
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» House Passes ADA Amendments Act, June 25, 2008 The House passed the ADA Amendments Act, which reiterates the intent of the original Americans with Disabilities Act to allow disabled Americans to pursue active, productive lives.
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» Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act, June 25, 2008 With today's signing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, every man, woman and child with a disability can now pass through once closed doors into a bright new era of equality, independence and freedom... [TRANSCRIPT]
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» THE DAILY LEADER: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008, June 24, 2008 suspensions, H.R. 6275 - The Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008,H.R. 3195 - ADA Amendments Act, H.R. 2176 - To provide for and approve the settlement of certain land claims of the Bay Mills Indian Community
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» Hoyer Statement on Bipartisan Vote for “Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act”, June 24, 2008 Again today, the House has taken decisive action on a critical issue facing the American people by passing this important legislation to stave off the 10.6 percent payment reduction for thousands of physicians in Medicare.
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» THE DAILY LEADER: TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2008, June 23, 2008 Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens and Suspensions.
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» Hoyer, Blunt: Friends Over All, June 23, 2008 Each week when Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) deliver a colloquy on the House floor, both seem to relish the gentlemanly discussion of the schedule for upcoming legislative business.
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» THE DAILY LEADER: MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008, June 22, 2008 Suspensions
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» THE WEEKLY LEADER: WEEK OF JUNE 23, 2008, June 20, 2008
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» THE LEADER'S REPORT: WEEK OF JUNE 16, 2008, June 20, 2008
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» Hoyer: FISA Amendments Act Strikes A Sound Balance, June 20, 2008
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» A Better Surveillance Law, June 20, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL leaders of both parties should be commended for drafting legislation that brings the country's surveillance laws into the 21st century while protecting civil liberties and preserving important national security prerogatives. The bill is scheduled to be voted on today in the House, and it deserves to pass.
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» Discussing the FISA Compromise on Bloomberg, June 20, 2008 We think that this bill is a good compromise and I am hopeful that the Senate will pass it and send it to the President. If they send it as we pass it, then I think he will sign it... [TRANSCRIPT]
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» THE DAILY LEADER: FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008, June 19, 2008 Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2008 and The FISA Amendments Act of 2008
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» Hoyer on Supplemental, June 19, 2008 WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following Floor statement regarding the supplemental appropriations bill. As prepared for delivery:
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» Paid Parental Leave Bill Passes House, June 19, 2008 Legislation that would provide federal employees with four weeks of paid parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives today with a vote of 278-146...
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» Hoyer Statement Commemorating Juneteenth, June 19, 2008 The Emancipation Proclamation had been issued almost three years before; but it wasn’t until June 19, 1865 that news of freedom reached the slaves of Texas...
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» Press Conference on Paid Parental Leave Bill TODAY, June 19, 2008 ...legislation that would give federal employees four weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child...
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» Bipartisan FISA Compromise Reached, June 19, 2008 The FISA Amendments Act, H.R. 6304, will increase the nation’s security by strengthening the ability of the intelligence community to conduct lawful surveillance of terrorists, as well as protect constitutional rights by requiring warrants before the government can surveil any American.
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» THE DAILY LEADER: THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2008, June 18, 2008 Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2008 and Iraq/Afghanistan Supplemental Appropriations bill
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» Hoyer: Supplemental on House Floor Tomorrow, June 18, 2008 I am pleased that Chairman Obey, Chairman Rangel and I were able to work with Leader Boehner and others to come to an agreement on a supplemental that will provide for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as address important domestic needs.
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» Hoyer Praises Committee Action on ADA Amendments Act, June 18, 2008 I applaud the Committees on Judiciary and Education and Labor for reporting H.R. 3195, the ADA Amendments of 2008, in a strong bipartisan manner.
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» THE DAILY LEADER: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008, June 17, 2008 Suspensions, H.R. 6063 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2008
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» Hoyer/Cardin/S. Johnson Bill Honoring Korean War Veterans Passes House, Headed to President, June 17, 2008 House passage today of legislation they have sponsored to grant a Federal Charter to the Korean War Veterans Association (KWVA), one of the few veterans’ service organizations of its size that has not been recognized with the prestigious classification...
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