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Hoyer Morning Hour Speech on Federal Employees
December 15, 2011

"I rise out of a deep concern that this congress continues to ask one group to sacrifice to bring down our nation's deficit while not asking others to contribute as well."
Hoyer Discusses GOP's Year-End Tax Extenders Package on MSNBC
December 14, 2011

“This was not a real bill, Lawrence, in the sense that the President indicated he would veto it. The leader in the Senate, the Majority Leader said it couldn`t pass and wouldn`t pass the Senate. We have 72 hours to go before the government shuts down. We have 18 days, approximately, left to go until the end of the year. We need to stop playing politics and pretense and get down to doing things that both parties can pass.”
Hoyer Floor Statement on GOP Year-End Extenders Package
December 13, 2011

I rise in opposition to this bill. We are now in overtime. The scheduled date for ending this session was December 8. That date, of course, was substantially later than we normally suggest ending the session. Notwithstanding that fact, we did not meet that deadline.
Hoyer Remarks at Press Conference on Unemployment Insurance, Payroll Tax Holiday Extensions
December 2, 2011

Coal in the stocking ought not to be what we leave for the American people at the end of this year. We’re going to have some three million people who are going to be without the ability to support themselves and their families if we don’t pass an extension of unemployment insurance benefits in the next few days.
 
Hoyer Floor Statement on GOP Efforts to Terminate the Election Assistance Commission
December 1, 2011

"Now what we see, frankly, throughout America, in republican-controlled legislatures in many, many states, is an effort to make voting more difficult. To, in my opinion, suppress the vote. To require more and more documentation of people who have already registered to vote, and claiming problems that exist that do not exist."

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