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» HOYER: COMMIT TO INVESTING IN EDUCATION DURING EDUCATION WEEK, November 15, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement in observance of American Education Week (November 14 – 20). American Education Week was founded by the National Education Association in 1921. This year’s theme is “Celebrating the American Dream.”
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» Republicans Dig America Deep into Debt, November 15, 2004 Debt Limit Floor Feature
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» Week of November 15, 2004, November 15, 2004 Appropriations
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» House Leadership Appears Largely Stable on Both Sides for 109th Congress, November 12, 2004 As the 108th Congress prepares to take its final votes, this also will be the week that the 109th Congress starts to take shape.
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» Democrats Vow to Hold Bush Accountable, November 10, 2004 Congressional Democrats returned to Washington in a defiant mood yesterday, making no apologies for the campaign in which they lost congressional seats and the presidential race and vowing to hold President Bush accountable for his handling of the deficit, the Iraq war and other issues.
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» HOYER: HONORING OUR HEROES ON VETERANS DAY, November 10, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in observance of Veterans Day tomorrow, November 11:
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» In the House, both parties’ leaders pledge to maintain Jewish outreach , November 03, 2004 The Democratic and Republican whips in the U.S. House of Representatives have a lot in common when it comes to Jewish issues — such as bipartisan agreement on support for Israel and an understanding that neither party can take the Jewish vote for granted any longer.
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» HOYER: IMPASSE ON INTELLIGENCE REFORM DEMONSTRATES THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTING DEMOCRATS TO HOUSE MAJORITY, October 27, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding the continuing impasse on an intelligence reform bill and the failure of this Republican Congress to enact legislation on other major issues:
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» Hoyer's Lock on 5th District Likely to Continue , October 27, 2004 Steny Hoyer is standing on a playing field at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Beltsville, exhorting a group of eighth graders to stay physically fit. He is, as ever, eloquent and impeccably dressed, not a sleek, silver hair out of place. With the thermometer pushing 80 degrees, he hasn't even rolled up his sleeves.
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» HOYER: AGGRESSIVE ACTION NEEDED TO RESTORE THE INTENT OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, October 21, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) today delivered the first annual Tony Coelho Lecture in Disability Employment Law and Policy at New York Law School. Rep. Hoyer, who was the lead House sponsor of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), focused his speech on the unfulfilled promise of the ADA and the urgent need to address the weakening of protections afforded to people with disabilities. The following is the full text of Rep. Hoyer's speech:

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» HOYER LAUDS OHIO PROVISIONAL BALLOT DECISION, October 15, 2004 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), lead House Democratic sponsor of the Help America Vote Act, released the following statement today in reaction to yesterday’s decision by the United States District Court in Ohio regarding provisional ballots...
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» Hoyer: Why Aren’t Republicans Trying to Impeach Treasury Secretary John Snow?, October 15, 2004 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after Treasury Secretary John Snow announced on Thursday that the federal government had hit the debt ceiling set by Congress (now $7.384) and that he would have to borrow funds from federal employees’ pension systems to prevent the government from defaulting on its debt...

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» Democratic Whip Lashes Out Against Kerry Film, October 14, 2004 House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, said 85 House Democrats signed a letter asking the FCC to investigate Sinclair Broadcasting over the anti-Kerry film without giving equal time to their candidate.
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» HOYER CHASTISES REPUBLICANS FOR UNPRECEDENTED FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT, October 14, 2004 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today regarding the Bush Administration’s announcement that the federal budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2004 was a record $413 billion...
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» HOYER ON U.S. NEED TO RAISE DEBT LIMIT, AGAIN:, October 14, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to the Treasury Department’s announcement that the statutory debt ceiling has been reached, and that the Secretary of the Treasury can avoid default only by undertaking bookkeeping acrobatics:
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» Hoyer on WUSA on the Presedential Debate, October 14, 2004 Hoyer discusses the 3rd and final presedential debate, also Univ. of Maryland and NOAA fundings ...
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» 85 HOUSE DEMOCRATS ASK FCC TO INVESTIGATE BROADCASTING OF ANTI-KERRY FILM, October 13, 2004 The House Democratic Leadership, including Leader Nancy Pelosi, Whip Steny Hoyer, Caucus Chairman Bob Menendez, and Vice Chairman Jim Clyburn, was joined by 81 members of the House Democratic Caucus in writing to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell today to request an FCC investigation into Sinclair Broadcasting Inc.’s decision to pre-empt regular programming on its 62 affiliates across the country in order to air a 90-minute anti-Kerry attack before the November 2nd election:

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» GOP, Democratic Leaders Stump For Their Candidates, October 13, 2004 With Election Day less than three weeks away, House GOP and Democratic leaders are canvassing the country for their candidates and incumbents.
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» Democratic leaders pressure DeLay to cede House post; , October 09, 2004 Democrats demanded Thursday that Tom DeLay resign as U.S. House majority leader, claiming that a series of ethics reprimands reveals a pattern of corruption that renders the Texan unfit for a position of leadership.
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» Democrats: 'Time for new leadership' , October 09, 2004 U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House Democratic whip, listed what he termed as many GOP failures and quoted a congressional scholar to describe the 108th Congress -- "pretty pathetic." He delivered the Democrats' weekly radio address.
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» HOYER: FIREFIGHTER PROGRAMS IMPORTANT TO HOMELAND SECURITY, October 09, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) today praised the inclusion of $65 million for the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters (SAFER) Program and $650 million for the Assistance to Firefighter Grant Program in the fiscal year 2005 Homeland Security Appropriations Conference Report. As a co-chair of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, Hoyer helped establish and fund both of these federal grant programs to assist fire departments across the country.

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» Hoyer: GOP Congress Failed Americans, October 09, 2004 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer criticized the Republican-controlled Congress on Saturday for "surrendering to its own intransigence and admitting that it cannot complete the work the people sent us here to do."
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» Democratic Leaders Call for DeLay's Ouster, October 08, 2004 House Democratic leaders and several outside groups called for Majority Leader Tom DeLay to resign his post yesterday, saying that three admonishments by the House ethics committee in one week disqualify him for the chamber's second-highest leadership job. Fellow Republicans staunchly defended the Texas lawmaker, even as some said the consecutive rebukes may complicate his prospects of ever becoming speaker.

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» Democrats: Republican 'Hammer' should step down, October 08, 2004 Outraged Democrats called Thursday for the resignation of senior Republican lawmaker Tom DeLay for a "disturbing pattern of corruption" following his censure by a House ethics panel.
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» Ethics Rebuke to DeLay Prompts Democratic Calls for Ouster, October 08, 2004 Top House Democrats today condemned Representative Tom DeLay, the leader of the Republican majority, declaring that the latest ethics case against him proved that he had been corrupted by power and was unfit to lead.
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