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» Hoyer Statement on the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009, November 05, 2009 A year ago this week, Barack Obama was elected president in the midst of the greatest economic crisis in a generation.

» Majority Leader Hoyer Commemorates 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 04, 2009 House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer spoke at a Helsinki Commission event this morning marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

» Hoyer: Inaccurate UN Report Distorts Facts, Treats Israel Unfairly, November 03, 2009 I rise to voice my objection to the unbalanced and inaccurate Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, otherwise known as the Goldstone Report.

» Hoyer Statement on the Affordable Health Care for America Act, October 29, 2009 Today, we are one step further on a long, hard road—the road to bringing quality, affordable health care to every American.

» Hoyer Speaks at Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring Former Sen. Edward Brooke, October 28, 2009 On his arrival in the Senate, Edward Brooke tells us in his autobiography, the same Senators who spoke out so forcefully for segregation were happy to invite their new colleague into the Senate swimming pool.

» Hoyer Speaks on Community Schools at Center for American Progress, October 28, 2009 I am proud to join Prime Minister Blair and Secretary Duncan on this important day for the community schools movement.

» Hoyer Speaks at Press Conference on the Vitter-Bennett Census Amendment, October 22, 2009 The census doesn’t exist to score political points—it exists to give us an accurate picture of our country.

» Hoyer Statement at the Unveiling of the Helen Keller Statue, October 07, 2009 ‘She will be as famous a thousand years from now as she is today.’ Mark Twain, who was her friend, made that prediction for Helen Adams Keller.

» Hoyer Statement on the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009, September 22, 2009 Eight months into the 111th Congress, and the Obama presidency, it is clear that the economic policies that we have put in place are helping to pull our country out of recession.

» Hoyer Statement on Resolution of Disapproval, September 15, 2009 None of us is happy to be here considering the resolution before us. I know I am not. At the same time, what is at issue here is of importance to this House and to our country.

» Hoyer Statement at the September 11th Congressional Remembrance Ceremony, September 09, 2009 Today we mark the distance traveled between fear and memory.

» Hoyer Statement at Press Conference on the Full-Service Community Schools Act, September 09, 2009 The motive behind community schools is a simple one: getting every child in America the education he or she deserves.

» Hoyer: America’s Small Businesses Need Health Reform, August 21, 2009 Welcome and thank you for joining us today to bring to light the many ways that health reform proposals under discussion in Congress will help small businesses who are today struggling to provide coverage for their employees.

» Hoyer Remarks at Democratic Leadership Press Conference on Health Care Reform, July 27, 2009 We’ve heard a lot of wild claims about health insurance reform from our Republican colleagues.

» Hoyer: Americans Need Health Reform That Ends Denial of Coverage Based On Pre-Existing Conditions, July 23, 2009 For far too many decades, we have labored under a health care system that is unworthy of our great country.

» Hoyer Statement on the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act, July 22, 2009 Maybe you’ve heard ‘the first rule of holes’: when you’re in one, stop digging.

» Hoyer Statement on the American Clean Energy and Security Act, June 26, 2009 This is a transformative moment. This is a moment to build a clean energy future for our country. This is a moment to create jobs. This is a moment to take on, at long last, a defining challenge of our time: global warming.

» Hoyer Statement on Introduction of Statutory PAYGO, June 17, 2009 Today, I am introducing statutory “pay-as-you-go” legislation in the House, with over 155 original co-sponsors, including the Members standing behind me.

» Hoyer Statement on Supplemental Appropriations Bill, June 16, 2009 I rise to voice my strong support for final passage of this supplemental appropriations bill.

» Hoyer Speaks at Press Conference on the Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act, June 10, 2009 We are here to defend small businesses that are integral to our communities, and to the employment of one million Americans: our auto dealerships.

» Hoyer Speaks at NEI's 2009 Nuclear Energy Assembly, May 19, 2009 I want to welcome you to this conference. I want to applaud your commitment to clean air, to lower emissions, and to the nuclear technology that will help get us there.

» Hoyer Speaks to Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy, May 13, 2009 Thank you for inviting me to speak to you in the midst of a transformative time for America’s energy policy. This morning, I’d like to talk about what I think that transformation ought to look like. But before I do, I want to emphasize that it’s just as important that we hear what you think it ought to look like.

» Hoyer Speaks on Health Care Reform at NCPA's Annual Conference, May 12, 2009 ‘Patient-centered care’: as I’m sure you know, that is one of the biggest buzz-phrases in our healthcare debate.

» Hoyer Delivers Keynote Address on Entitlement and Health Care Reform, May 06, 2009 If I were to guess the single most lasting lesson of our economic crisis, and if I were to spell it out in just five words, I would say: this is what debt does.

» EMBARGOED: Hoyer to Speak at AIPAC Policy Conference, May 04, 2009 A hope so simple and so humble that nearly every people took it for granted: ‘That we may be a nation like all other nations.’ So many thousands of years ago, the Old Testament tells us, the Jewish people asked simply for that, at the foundation of their first state.

 

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