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» GOP Pulls Tax Bill Off Schedule Rather than Risk Another Embarrassing Floor Defeat, April 09, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement this morning after the Republican leadership announced that it had pulled the “Taxpayer Protection and IRS Accountability Act of 2003” (H.R. 1538) off the Suspension Calendar today...

» Republican Reconciliation Proposal Is a Cry of Desperation – and a Farce!, April 09, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today regarding reports that House and Senate GOP leaders would write two tax reconciliation numbers into the Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2004...

» REPUBLICANS AND RED INK, April 08, 2003 This week, the House and Senate are expected to consider the 2004 Budget Conference Report (H Con Res 95). Once Congress adopts a conference report on its fiscal year 2004 budget resolution, the House is deemed to have passed a stand-alone bill to increase the debt limit and the issue is immediately kicked to the Senate. This means that if the House and Senate clear the 2004 Budget this week, Congress could send the President a bill to increase the nation’s debt limit before leaving for Spring recess – and a vote wouldn’t even be required...

» Hoyer: Job Losses Continue to Pile Up As the American Economy Continues to Flounder, April 04, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today after the U.S. Department of Labor reported that employers cut 108,000 jobs from their payrolls in March...

» In the Face of Sure Defeat, GOP Tries to Turn a Sow’s Ear Into a Silk Purse, April 02, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following today in an effort to set the record straight in the face of Republicans spinning themselves into a fury to justify their remarkable turnaround on the motion to instruct on the fiscal year 2004 budget yesterday...

» THIN SKIN, SHORT MEMORIES PLAGUE GOP LEADERS, April 02, 2003 With the United States now at war to disarm Saddam Hussein, some Republicans continue to question the patriotism of anyone who has the audacity to challenge the Bush Administration’s foreign policy...

» Hoyer: In Major Win for Democrats, House GOP Walks Away from Its Own Budget, April 01, 2003 WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after House Republicans switched from opposition to the Democratic motion to instruct conferees on the fiscal year 2004 budget to support in the middle of debate on the Floor...

» HOUSE GOP BUDGET: TAKING A WALK OFF THE DEEP END, March 31, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) and House Democratic leaders today denounced the reckless and damaging Republican budget resolution and promoted a motion to instruct the budget conferees to reject cuts in education, healthcare, and veterans’ programs. The following is Congressman Hoyer’s statement as prepared for delivery...

» Hoyer: Republican Majority Shutting Down Democratic Debate Again on Small Pox Compensation Fund, March 31, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today regarding the House Republican Leadership’s refusal to allow a Democratic alternative to H.R. 1463, the Small Pox Vaccination Compensation Fund Act ...

» HOYER, OBERSTAR, AIRLINES MEET TO DISCUSS CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSE TO INDUSTRY’S WOES, March 27, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) and Transportation Committee Ranking Member Jim Oberstar (MN) meet with representatives of the airline companies today to discuss government assistance to the airline industry. Representatives DeFazio and Lipinski also participated in the meeting...

» Hoyer: Senate Vote Could be the Death-Knell for Bush Tax Plan, March 25, 2003 WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today regarding the Senate vote to cut the Bush tax plan in half...

» Hoyer: Democratic Unity on Budget is a Sign of Good Things to Come, March 21, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement today regarding the votes in the U.S. House last night on the 2004 Republican Budget Resolution and the Democratic alternative...

» House Democratic Whip Hoyer Says Nation Stands United Behind Our Troops, March 20, 2003 Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), the House Democratic Whip, released the following statement today regarding our military efforts to disarm Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein...

» Democratic Whip Hoyer: Republicans Calling Daschle Comments Partisan Are Hypocritical, March 19, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in response to criticism by Republican leaders of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle...

» HOYER AND DEMOCRATIC LEADERS RIP REPUBLICAN BUDGET “ALBATROSS”, March 19, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) and House Democratic leaders today announced the House Democratic budget alternative, which safeguards domestic programs, creates jobs, and protects the Social Security and Medicare trusts. Rep. Hoyer criticized the reckless and damaging Republican budget resolution released by the House Republican Budget Committee...

» HOYER RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT BUSH’S SPEECH ON IRAQ, March 17, 2003 House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement tonight in response to the president’s speech on Iraq...

» WAGGING TONGUES, March 17, 2003 The Republican Budget Resolution that will be on the House Floor this week would slash funding for crucial domestic priorities in virtually every area – education, veterans’ health care, the environment and research, to name a few – to pay for the President’s $1.4 trillion tax plan. Furthermore, this GOP Budget Resolution requires nearly every authorizing committee to cut direct spending within its jurisdiction by its pro-rated share of mandatory spending, including funding for Medicare, Medicaid, school lunches, and veterans’ health care. Cuts to mandatory spending would total $470 billion over the next decade if Republicans enact a $400 billion prescription drug plan.

» House GOP Budget is Even Worse Than the Bush Budget!, March 14, 2003 Late in the evening of March 11, the House Budget Committee – on a party-line vote of 24 to 19 – voted out a House GOP budget resolution...

» 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...

» 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...

» 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...

» 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...

» 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...

» 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...

» 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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