WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today on the Congressional Budget Office's monthly budget review for September, the final report for FY 2015. The review showed that the federal government ran a deficit of $435 billion in FY 2015, the smallest deficit since 2007:
I was deeply disappointed that the House passed an appropriation bill for the Department of Homeland Security that included partisan, poison-pill amendments to deport DREAMers and tear immigrant families apart.
We are now considering a bill which is central to the protection of Americans and America from those who would, through terrorist activities, put our people at risk.
WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke on the House Floor this evening in opposition to the partisan amendments House Republicans have attached to must-pass legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Below is a transcript of his remarks and a link to the video.
Well, very frankly, we have on the Floor this week, as you know, the funding of the Department of Homeland Security, which is designed to keep our country and our people safe.
With only fourteen legislative days remaining before the House is scheduled to adjourn, there are a number of pressing issues that need to be addressed.
Democrats continue to closely monitor reports of misconduct at Veterans Affairs health facilities, including the Phoenix VA Health Care System.
While I supported the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act when it passed the House today, I share many of the Obama Administration’s concerns as well as those of House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith that this bill does not reflect the hard choices necessary to achieve fiscal sustainability.
As Budget Chairman Paul Ryan continues his “poverty messaging tour” today, with both a Budget hearing and CBC meeting, your ever-helpful Democratic Whip press shop put some questions together for you to ask him. There’s a lot to choose from, including his budget that disinvests in the majority of critical programs that prevent poverty and help people get out of it, and a voting record that doesn’t reflect an interest in ending poverty. Here are just a few questions to get you started:
This week, House Republicans begin pursuing an agenda laid out by Leader Cantor in a memo titled, “An America that Works.” Unfortunately, the GOP memo shows exactly why, under their leadership, this is a Congress that doesn’t work. What they have put forward is an agenda that works for some, while denying access to opportunities for millions by ignoring immigration reform, raising the minimum wage, renewing emergency unemployment insurance, or creating jobs.
As the House prepares to vote tomorrow on the Ryan budget, we present you with a roundup of recent articles highlighting just how disastrous it would be for our economy, for the most vulnerable in our society, for our long-term fiscal outlook – and for Republicans themselves:
“I thank the Ranking Member for yielding. This Republican budget, as I've said before, is an exercise in how not to achieve fiscal sustainability.
“Madame Chair, I want to first congratulate Nydia Valazquez of New York on the extraordinary leadership she has shown on behalf of entrepreneurs and small businesses and medium-sized businesses and yes, even large businesses in our country.
“Thank you very much for being here. I am pleased to be joined by my colleagues, the Ranking Member of the Science and Technology Committee, the Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee, the Ranking Member of the Budget Committee, and Mr. Heck, who is a representative of the freshman class, but who himself was a very high ranking leader in the legislature in Washington state, a very successful business man, who knows a lot about what we’re talking about, and we’re pleased to have him here as well.
“I thank the Ranking Member for yielding. I would first observe, Mr. Speaker, that the American people ought to lament another opportunity missed. An opportunity to come together and adopt a big, balanced plan for investment and balance in our fiscal system in America.
This week, the House will vote on the extreme House Republican budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2015.
Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) discussed the extreme Republican budget and the success of the Affordable Care Act on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and Fox News' "Fox & Friends" this morning.
Today, House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA). chair of the Democratic Whip Task Force on Poverty, Income Inequality, and Opportunity, sent a letter to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office requesting an analysis of how the extreme House Republicans budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2015 would impact poverty in the country
The extreme Republican budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2015 is little more than a partisan messaging document; it makes harsh and dangerous cuts to many of our nation’s critical programs that would harm our economy and middle-class families.
The House Republican budget unveiled this week continues not only the same harmful policies and budget gimmicks that the American people have rejected time and again, but even recycles the top-line messaging.
Before the House Republican budget comes to the Floor next week (assuming they get over their divisions and come up with the votes, of course) we thought you’d enjoy seeing how some editorial cartoonists reviewed it:
Rep. Steny Hoyer (Md.), the second-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans should propose a replacement if they don't want to see defense spending cut as a result of across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration.