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» HOYER ON $450 BILLION DEFICIT, July 15, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to news reports that the budget deficit for fiscal year 2003 is expected to exceed $450 billion dollars according to White House estimates, which is 50 percent higher than the Administration’s forecast 5 months ago and nearly $50 billion more than economists anticipated just last week...

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» HOYER URGES SUPPORT FOR UNFPA AND HEALTHCARE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, July 15, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) spoke today on the House Floor in opposition to the Smith/Hyde amendment to strip the Crowley amendment from the State Department Authorization bill (H.R. 1950), which reinstated desperately needed funding to the United Nations Population Fund. The funding is crucial for health care and education to improve the health of women and their families, and to address rapid population growth...

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» DEMOCRATS VOTE TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE Rx DRUG BENEFIT TO ALL SENIORS, URGE REPUBLICANS TO DO THE SAME, July 14, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in support of the Democratic Motion to Instruct Conferees on the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill. The motion would instruct conferees to support the Senate-passed provision requiring a federal “fallback” prescription drug benefit to protect all seniors, and reject turning Medicare into an expensive, undependable voucher program...

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» HOYER ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR CHILE AND SINGAPORE FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS, July 14, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this morning announcing his support for free trade agreements with Chile and Singapore...
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» Week of July 14, 2003, July 14, 2003 GOP Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, Foreign Relations Authorization Act, School Readiness Act of 2003
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» Report on Bonuses Raises Ire; Democrats, Unions Angry Again Over 2002 Awards to Political Appointees, July 11, 2003 The Bush administration doled out $ 1.44 million in bonuses to 470 political appointees last year, according to an Office of Personnel Management report.
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» Democrats Lash Out at Education Funding in Labor-HHS Appprops Bill, July 10, 2003 The House was poised to pass the massive Labor-Health and Human Services-Education spending bill before adjourning for the week Thursday afternoon. But the massive appropriations bill has drawn harsh criticism from Democrats...
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» HOYER RELEASES REPORT ON WHITE HOUSE POLITICAL APPOINTEE BONUSES, July 10, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement today regarding a report by the Office of Personnel Management on cash bonuses awarded to political appointees by the White House. Mr. Hoyer requested the report 8 months ago, on December 10, 2002. The report details, by agency, the number of political appointees who are eligible to receive cash award and the average salaries of those employees; a list, by agency, of the number of political appointees who received within -grade increases in 2002; and a list, by agency, of the numbers and amounts of cash awards granted to political appointees during that same period...

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» HOYER: REPUBLICANS FLUNK EDUCATION 101 FOR AMERICA’S CHILDREN, July 10, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) assailed the House Republican cuts to education and America’s schools on the House floor today. Breaking promises, Republicans removed needed funding for essential programs such as Title I, No Child Left Behind, health and science research, and job training. The following is Rep. Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

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» Democrats Try to Reclaim Rx Issue, July 09, 2003 In an attempt to regain an issue they fear the GOP has snatched away, House Democrats will fan out across the country later this month and host a series of town hall meetings to tell voters why they remain the party to trust on prescription drug reform...
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» HOYER ON LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS, July 09, 2003 WASHINGTON - House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement today after the House passed the fiscal year 2004 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill...
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» Hoyer: GOP Head Start Plan Undermines Quality of Services to Low Income Children, July 07, 2003 WASHINGTON - House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), released the following statement today in response to President Bush’s visit to Highland Park Elementary School in Landover, Maryland. The House Republican Head Start plan, endorsed by the President, would turn a successful, federal-to-local program into a state-led experiment on low-income children...

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» Week of July 7, 2003, July 07, 2003 Ready to Teach Act of 2003, Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2003, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2004
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» AS UNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES, HOUSE WHIP CRITICIZES FAILED BUSH ECONOMIC PLAN, July 03, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this morning after the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the unemployment rate rose to 6.4 percent in June and the economy lost 30,000 jobs last month...
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» Dems Declare Political War in the House, June 27, 2003 WASHINGTON — House Democrats have declared war on the Republican leadership, vowing to gum up the legislative process in retaliation for what they say is systematic and unfair treatment by the majority...
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» Democrats Offer An Affordable And Guaranteed Prescription Drug Coverage Under Medicare, June 26, 2003 WASHINGTON – Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), Ranking Democrat on the Committee on Ways and Means – along with Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Democrat John Dingell (D-Mich.) – today offered a substitute to the Republican Medicare legislation (H.R. 1) that would add an affordable, comprehensive prescription drug benefit to Medicare for millions of Americans...

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» Democrats Urge Bush To Press Hard On Tax Credit, June 26, 2003 WASHINGTON, June 25 -- The top two Congressional Democrats, along with most of the House Democratic caucus, demanded today that President Bush intervene to deliver an increased child tax credit for low-income families this month, but Republican officials said a decision on credits would have to wait for weeks, if not longer...
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» House Democrats on Edge of Forcing Vote on Fair Pay for Disabled Veterans, June 26, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after House Democrats succeeded in collecting 200 signatures on a “discharge petition” on the “Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2003" (H.R. 303)...
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» HOYER AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE BENEFITS TO “TEMPORARY” AOC WORKERS PASSES, June 26, 2003 WASHINGTON – The House Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment today to the fiscal year 2004 Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill, which was offered by House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) to require the Architect of the Capital (AOC) to act immediately to provide basic worker benefits to ‘temporary’ workers...

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» Hoyer: Ending Medicare as We Know It, June 26, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) made the following statement tonight on the House Floor regarding the competing Democratic and Republican bills to provide a prescription drug benefit to seniors...
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» SENIORS, HOYER, AND DEMOCRATS ASSAIL FAILED REPUBLICAN MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION, June 26, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), Democratic members, and senior advocacy groups today attacked the controversial and complicated House Republican Medicare plan, which will force seniors to leave doctors they trust and will not guarantee benefits or premiums. The following is Rep. Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

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» 160 HOUSE DEMOCRATS URGE PRESIDENT TO PERSONALLY INTERVENE TO RESOLVE CHILD TAX CREDIT STALEMATE IMMEDIATELY, June 25, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer organized 160 House Democrats...
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» HOYER LAUDS INCLUSION OF ELECTION REFORM DISABILITY FUNDS IN LABOR, HEALTH BILL, June 25, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today following the Full Appropriations Committee Markup of the Fiscal Year 2004 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill, which contained $15 million total for election reform disability programs including State Access Grants ($13 million) and Protection and Advocacy programs ($2 million)...

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» HOYER ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY BILL: A One Billion Dollar Trade-Off, June 24, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement today in support of the Obey amendment that would have added roughly $1 billion to the Fiscal Year 2004 Homeland Security Appropriations bill for key security vulnerabilities by slightly decreasing the amount the tax cut people making over $1 million a year would receive. The 200,000 people with incomes over $1 million would have their 2004 tax cut reduced from $88,326 to $83,326. The FY04 Homeland Security bill is expected to pass the House today...

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» HOYER, DEMOCRATS ATTACK HOUSE GOP MEDICARE PLAN FOR HURTING RURAL SENIORS, June 24, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), along with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA), other Democratic House members, and Frank Clemente of Public Citizen today announced the results of a study by Public Citizen which demonstrates how the complicated Republican plan to provide prescription drug coverage through private insurance plans could leave America’s seniors, especially rural seniors, with NO coverage...

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