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Press Release: April 6, 2020

Hoyer Statement on the Health and Human Services' Inspector General's Report

The Inspector General’s report is a damning indictment of the Trump Administration’s failure to do its job and assist states where the coronavirus pandemic is pushing the capacity of health care systems to their limits. The President and his Administration must take whatever steps are necessary to deliver urgent medical equipment and supplies, particularly masks and ventilators, needed to protect and save lives.
Press Release: April 3, 2020

Hoyer Statement on March Jobs Report

This morning's jobs report reflects the loss of jobs as the economy shuts down while we work to stop the spread of coronavirus.  Unfortunately, this report doesn't even show the full extent of the economic pain millions of Americans are experiencing. The unemployment rate, which went from 3.5% to 4.4%, was the largest monthly rate increase since 1975 - and it only reflects data through the middle of March, before many stay-at-home orders began. 
 
Press Release: April 2, 2020

Hoyer Statement on FEMA's Failure to Provide States with Urgently Needed Medical Supplies

The report today by the Committee on Oversight and Reform is alarming, indicating that the Trump Administration continues to fail in its responsibility to provide critical supplies to states fighting the spread of coronavirus. We already know that the White House delayed taking action for weeks as the virus spread.
Press Release: April 2, 2020

Hoyer Statement on the Unemployment Insurance Claims Report

WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement on today's unemployment insurance claims report:
Press Release: March 31, 2020

Hoyer Statement on Hungary's Anti-Democratic Emergency Powers Legislation

I am deeply concerned about the emergency powers legislation enacted yesterday in Hungary.  Prime Minister Orban has given little indication that he can be trusted to relinquish emergency powers granted to him without an expiration date. 
Press Release: April 6, 2020

Hoyer Statement on the Health and Human Services' Inspector General's Report

The Inspector General’s report is a damning indictment of the Trump Administration’s failure to do its job and assist states where the coronavirus pandemic is pushing the capacity of health care systems to their limits. The President and his Administration must take whatever steps are necessary to deliver urgent medical equipment and supplies, particularly masks and ventilators, needed to protect and save lives.
Press Release: April 3, 2020

Hoyer Statement on March Jobs Report

This morning's jobs report reflects the loss of jobs as the economy shuts down while we work to stop the spread of coronavirus.  Unfortunately, this report doesn't even show the full extent of the economic pain millions of Americans are experiencing. The unemployment rate, which went from 3.5% to 4.4%, was the largest monthly rate increase since 1975 - and it only reflects data through the middle of March, before many stay-at-home orders began. 
 
Press Release: April 2, 2020

Hoyer Statement on FEMA's Failure to Provide States with Urgently Needed Medical Supplies

The report today by the Committee on Oversight and Reform is alarming, indicating that the Trump Administration continues to fail in its responsibility to provide critical supplies to states fighting the spread of coronavirus. We already know that the White House delayed taking action for weeks as the virus spread.
Press Release: April 2, 2020

Hoyer Statement on the Unemployment Insurance Claims Report

WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement on today's unemployment insurance claims report:
Press Release: March 31, 2020

Hoyer Statement on Hungary's Anti-Democratic Emergency Powers Legislation

I am deeply concerned about the emergency powers legislation enacted yesterday in Hungary.  Prime Minister Orban has given little indication that he can be trusted to relinquish emergency powers granted to him without an expiration date. 
Press Release: March 31, 2020

Hoyer Statement on the Trump Administration’s Rule Rolling Back Fuel Economy Standards

With this rule, the Trump Administration continues to jeopardize the health and wellbeing of communities across America. At a time when we should be doing all we can to boost public health, and when the auto industry and its workers are under tremendous stress, it is deeply disappointing that the Trump Administration would move forward with this rule.
Speech: March 27, 2020

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the CARES Act

Mr. Speaker, we meet at a challenging time in our country and in the global community. This session will be different than most where we come together, we reach out our hands, we hug one another in affection and thanks for their collegial work with us on the people's business. People who can see the chamber now will see that we are keeping a distance from one another – not out of hostility, but out of love for one another that we may keep one another healthy and safe. It will, therefore, be an unusual session, but a critical session.
Speech: March 5, 2020

Hoyer Remarks at a Congressional Tri-Caucus Press Conference on the 2020 Census

I want to thank all the Members of the Caucuses that are here, including the Chairman of our [Democratic] Caucus [Hakeem] Jeffries, Vice Chair [Katherine] Clark. 
Speech: February 26, 2020

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the Emmett Till Antilynching Act

I am pleased this will be a bipartisan vote. This is about Emmett Till. It's about lynching. It's about violence. It's about hate. But in a larger sense, this is about who we are as a country, who we are as a country that said ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.’ …To the surprise, I think, of probably many Americans, Madam Speaker, lynching has not been described as a hate crime. We will do that today… The House will make that determination today. I’m proud to bring this legislation to the Floor as Majority Leader."
Speech: February 26, 2020

Hoyer Remarks at Press Conference on the Emmett Till Antilynching Act

Thank you very much. [Rep.] Bobby Rush and I are close and dear friends and have been for many years. [Chairwoman] Karen [Bass], I was at an event some two years ago, and… Joe Madison,
Speech: February 13, 2020

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the House Resolution to Remove the Deadline to Ratify the ERA

Madam Speaker, first, let me thank Representative [Jackie] Speier, Representative [Carolyn] Maloney, and all those who have been such warriors on this issue for such a long period of time. They are keeping the faith.
Speech: February 12, 2020

Hoyer Remarks at Press Event Ahead of House Passage of Equal Rights Amendment Legislation

It’s never too late to do the right thing. About sixty days after…Congress passed the ERA, Maryland voted to ratify the ERA. I had been in the State Senate for five years at that point in the time, and I could not understand why women were not equal under our Constitution as it read, and how sad it was that, the consciousness of our Founders, which was extraordinarily high for their time – extraordinary – but they didn’t say ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident that all human kind are created equal.’ It is time to act. It is far past time to act. As I said in Maryland, 48 years ago, [we] overwhelmingly said: all of us are equal.
Op-Ed: February 28, 2020

Hoyer, Velázquez, Maloney, Ocasio-Cortez Op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel: U.S. House Members Urge Senate: Help Puerto Rico

Wanted to be sure you saw this op-ed by House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Small Business Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-07), Chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) in The Orlando Sentinel today. Following their recent Congressional delegation visit to Puerto Rico, the Members urged Senate Republicans to take action on the House-passed emergency supplemental funding bill to assist the island in responding to ongoing earthquakes. To read the op-ed, click here or see below:
Op-Ed: December 18, 2019

Hoyer Op-ed: Loyalty to Party Must Yield to a Higher Obligation

Wanted to be sure you saw this op-ed by House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) published by the New York Times today on the House vote to impeach the President of the United States.
Op-Ed: May 30, 2019

Hoyer Op-ed: I Was Hesitant About D.C. Statehood. Now I Believe It’s The Only Path Forward.

The most fundamental premise upon which American democracy stands is the right of every citizen to cast a vote and have that vote counted equally. From Bunker Hill to Bull Run, from Seneca Falls to Selma, the arc of our history has been shaped by the determination of Americans to have a say in their own future.
Op-Ed: March 28, 2019

CNN: The App That Tells You When The US House of Representatives is Voting

Wanted to be sure you saw this CNN article on “Dome Watch,” the fully-rebuilt version of Leader Hoyer’s popular app, formerly called “Whip Watch.”
Op-Ed: February 11, 2019

Medium Post: Our Nation Needs Strategic Border Security Investments, Not More Division and Demagoguery

Today, President Trump will head to El Paso, Texas for a campaign rally to divide and demagogue in order to make his case for his costly, ineffective border wall.
Issue Report: March 3, 2020

What’s at Stake if Republicans Win Their Lawsuit to Eliminate the Affordable Care Act

Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced it will hear the Texas v. United States case, a partisan lawsuit led by the Trump Administration and Republicans to strike down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety, including protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions. After failing previously to undo the law in the courts and repeal the law when they controlled all levers of government, President Trump and the GOP are continuing their assault on Americans’ health coverage with this lawsuit. If successful, here’s a look at what would be at stake for hundreds of millions of Americans:
Issue Report: February 12, 2020

What They’re Saying: President Trump’s Budget

The President released his budget this week, and it has been swiftly panned for making unrealistic economic growth assumptions, failing to address massive deficits and debt, and breaking promises the President made – like protecting Medicare –  just last week in his State of the Union.  Here’s a look at what the press and news columnists are saying about the budget:
Issue Report: February 12, 2020

House Democrats Reaffirm Support for the Equal Rights Amendment

From the wage gap and pregnancy discrimination to sexual harassment and attacks on reproductive health care, women face gender discrimination in many ways. Persistent gender inequality and discrimination impacts women, their families, and our economy:
Issue Report: February 11, 2020

The Trump Budget is a Continuation of Broken Promises to Working Families

Yesterday, the President released his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021 and made his priorities clear: he continues to put the wealthiest Americans first at the expense of working families. The budget proposal makes tax cuts for the wealthy permanent while breaking his promises to working families on health care, the economy, and other areas that help Americans get ahead and keep them safe.
 
Issue Report: February 4, 2020

President Trump’s Broken Promises to the American People

The President campaigned on numerous promises to the American people, and four years into his presidency, he is letting the American people down on pledge after pledge. Ahead of tonight’s State of the Union Address, here’s a look at what the President promised he would deliver to the American people and how he has fallen short with policies that put the wealthiest ahead of working families:
Issue Report: January 14, 2020

Ten Years After Citizens United, House Democrats Call on Senate to Take Up House-Passed Government Reform Measures

This month marks ten years since the Supreme Court’s major ruling in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case. The ruling removed reasonable campaign contribution limits and has allowed a small group of individuals and corporations to spend enormous sums of money on campaigns without disclosing their identities. As a result, this “dark” money has been able to drown out the will of the people on key issues.
 
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