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» House Gop’s Budget Resolution Is A Cruel Trick On The American People, March 13, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement today regarding the Republican fiscal year 2003 budget which is to be considered on the House Floor next week...
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» House Republican Budget: Even Worse Than The President’s, March 13, 2003 U.S. Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) issued the following statement today on the House Republican budget...
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» At Diplomacy's End, March 12, 2003 Sixty years ago, as darkness and destruction gripped the European continent, and as the United States fought to liberate millions there and in the Far East, Winston Churchill delivered a compelling call for unity that continues to ring true today...
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» Hoyer Hammers Reckless Republican Budget, March 12, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to the outlines of the House Republican’s Fiscal Year 2004 Budget...
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» Hoyer To Continue Abortion Fight In House Following Senate Passage, March 12, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), lead Democratic sponsor of the Late-Term Abortion Restriction Act, released the following statement today regarding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act that is expected to pass the Senate tomorrow and be taken up in the House following Senate passage...
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» As Bush Budget Moves Forward, Hoyer And Blue Dogs Hit Republicans For Raising Debt Limit, March 11, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) and leaders of the Blue Dog Coalition spoke out today on the need to raise the debt limit for the second time in a year following years of budget surplus, and the damaging consequences of President Bush’s fiscally irresponsible budget plan. The following is Congressman Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

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» Hoyer Calls Republican Union Bashing “Shameful”, March 10, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement today in response to news reports of the latest incident of a Republican Member of Congress, Representative Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), bashing unions in an effort to raise campaign contributions...
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» Hoyer Calls Republican Union Bashing “Shameful”, March 10, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer released the following statement today in response to news reports of the latest incident of a Republican Member of Congress, Representative Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), bashing unions in an effort to raise campaign contributions...
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» Democrats Applaud Republican Failure to Attach Special Interest Tax Provisions to Bipartisan Tax Relief Bill, March 06, 2003 Statments by Rep. Hoyer and Rep. Rangel ...
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» GOP Turns To Offshore Taxes In Bid To Save Embattled Add-Ons, March 06, 2003 House Republicans were shoring up their floor strategy late Wednesday for what Democrats promised would be a spirited debate today on a military tax relief bill that contains a number of unrelated special interest tax breaks...
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» Hoyer Applauds Republican Failure to Attach Special Interest Tax Provisions to Bipartisan Tax Relief Bill, March 06, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) applauded the failure of House Republicans to pass a bill today they had loaded down with special interest tax provisions. Democrats supported the underlying bill which gave tax relief to members of the armed services...
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» Republican Leadership Postpones Tax Relief For Service Men & Women To Protect GOP Special Interest Provisions, March 06, 2003 The House Republican Leadership today cancelled consideration of H.R. 878, a bill providing tax relief targeted to men and women in the armed services, because they lacked the votes to prevent Democrats from stripping several unrelated special interest tax breaks from the bill...

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» Dems Target Add-Ons In Armed Forces Tax Bill, March 05, 2003 House Minority Whip Hoyer said Democrats support an armed forces tax fairness bill, which is slated for a floor vote Thursday, but said Democrats would fight the special interest "add-ons" Republicans have included...
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» Bush Administration's Drug Plan A Thinly Veiled Attack On Medicare, March 04, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding competing prescription drug proposals offered by the Bush Administration and House Democrats today...
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» Don't Blame Injured Patients For Doctors' Insurance Woes, March 04, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to the President's statement on medical malpractice issues...
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» Democrats Offer the States a Ray of Hope, February 25, 2003 I do not envy you. In the next few months, excruciating decisions must be made in virtually every state capital. As NGA's fiscal survey of states reported in November: "nearly every state is in fiscal crisis" ...
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» Bush Economic Plan Would Make Budget Crisis In States Worse, February 24, 2003 Statement by Steny Hoyer, and state-by-state analysis
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» Democrats Move to Build on Welfare Reform's Success, February 19, 2003 Statements by Hoyer, Cardin, Greenstein
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» Cardin Blasts House Gop Welfare Bill As Unfunded Mandate For States That Limits Job Training, Education, February 13, 2003 Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin today blasted House Republicans for bringing a welfare bill to the floor that "sabotages the 1996 welfare reform effort by making it much harder for states to provide education and job training to welfare recipients" ...
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» Democratic Bill Continues Tough, Fair Reform, February 13, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) made the following statement on the House Floor today regarding the Democratic alternative to the GOP welfare reform bill...
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» Democratic Substitute on Welfare Reform, February 13, 2003 The substitute includes the following provisions to reduce poverty, promote State flexibility, and move welfare recipients into real jobs...
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» Bush budget is deja voodoo all over again, February 11, 2003 President Bush told the nation in his State of the Union address that "we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, other presidents and other generations." But last week, the administration's budget projected a $307 billion deficit for next year and deficits for as far as the eye can see - even as the administration pushes a new $674 billion tax plan and contemplates military action in Iraq that could cost hundreds of billions of dollars more...

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» Excerpts from Newspaper Editorials from Around the Country on Welfare Reform, February 11, 2003 "This is not the time for the federal government to skimp on welfare programs, or to burden states with additional expenses...
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» Statement of Congressman Hoyer Condemning the Selection of Libya to Chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, February 11, 2003 Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my good friends from Illinois and California, Chairman Hyde and ranking member Lantos, for bringing this very important resolution to the house floor. It's a moral imperative, and a matter of principle, that this house speak as one today...

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» Tax Cuts and Red Ink, February 04, 2003 When President Bush took office, his budget officials estimated the cumulative surplus for the years 2002-11 to be $5.6 trillion. Last week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its outlook for the next 10 years, in which it declared that the cumulative surplus for that 10-year period "has been all but eliminated." And that's before the president's proposed tax cuts or spending initiatives are factored into the budget...

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