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Internal: February 21, 2020

Dear Colleague: House to Vote on Historic Antilynching Bill, Legislation to Address the Youth Vaping Epidemic, Rights for Transportation Security Officers Act, No Ban Act

Next Wednesday, the House will take up H.R. 35, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, long overdue legislation to explicitly designate lynching as a hate crime under federal law. Also next week, the House will take up legislation to address the youth vaping and e-cigarette epidemic by prohibiting the manufacturing and sale of all flavored tobacco and increasing the user fee on nicotine to discourage young people from buying these dangerous products, among other provisions...
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THE WEEKLY LEADER: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Press Release: February 20, 2020

Hoyer Announces House Vote on Historic Antilynching Legislation

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) announced today that the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 35, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, on Wednesday, February 26. The legislation, introduced by Representative Bobby L. Rush (IL), would designate lynching as a hate crime under federal law. 
Press Release: February 19, 2020

Hoyer, Velázquez, Maloney, Ocasio-Cortez Conclude Congressional Delegation Visit to Puerto Rico

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Small Business Nydia M. Velázquez, Chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee Carolyn B. Maloney and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (all D-NY) concluded their Congressional delegation visit to Puerto Rico to survey damage and meet with those affected by recent earthquakes. 
Press Release: February 16, 2020

Hoyer Remarks at Press Conference in Puerto Rico

I am joined by two very senior Members of the United States and one new Member, a daughter of Puerto Rico, and one of our best-known Members in the Congress of the United States.
Press Release: February 14, 2020

Economy Weekly: Week of February 10, 2020

Economy Weekly: Week of February 10, 2020
Press Release: February 16, 2020

Hoyer Leads Congressional Delegation Visit to Puerto Rico

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) is leading a Congressional Delegation visit to Puerto Rico from Sunday, February 16, to Tuesday, February 18.
Leader's Report: February 14, 2020

House Democrats Call Out Trump’s Broken Promises in Budget, Pass Equal Rights Amendment Resolution

This week, the President released his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021, which makes his priorities clear: the wealthiest Americans are put first while working families are left behind. This budget is the latest manifestation of the President’s broken promises to the American people.
Press Release: February 13, 2020

Hoyer Statement on the President Stealing Additional Military Funding for Costly, Ineffective Border Wall

The President promised the American people that Mexico would pay for his border wall, but once again, he is stealing funds appropriated by the Congress to the military in order to fund this costly, ineffective, and wasteful endeavor. 
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.
Press Release: February 12, 2020

Hoyer Statement on the U.N. Human Rights Council Blacklist

Today we are witnessing the takeover of the U.N. Human Rights Council by the discriminatory B.D.S. movement, whose mission, as expressed plainly by its founders, is to effect a ‘one-state solution’ that eliminates Israel as a Jewish state. 
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:
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THE DAILY LEADER: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020

FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020
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.
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:
Speech: February 12, 2020

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the Trump Budget

Mr. Speaker, on Monday, the Trump Administration released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021. It was titled, 'A Budget for America’s Future,' but its vision for that future is bleak. Its vision of the future is the true 'American carnage' that President Trump described in his Inaugural Address. It envisions an America that is less than it can or should be. It envisions an America where working families are left to struggle while the wealthy continue to prosper.
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.
 
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THE DAILY LEADER: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2020

FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Press Release: February 11, 2020

Hoyer Remarks at Press Conference Ahead of DC Statehood Bill Markup and Committee Vote

Thank you very much Chair [Carolyn] Maloney and Congresswoman [Eleanor Holmes] Norton. Thank you very much for your leadership, your tenacity, and your focus, and your impetus to this particular piece of legislation.
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THE DAILY LEADER: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020

FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Press Release: February 10, 2020

Hoyer Remarks at Press Event on Bill to Establish Women’s History Museum

WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) delivered remarks today at a press event on H.R. 1980, the Smithsonian Women’s History Act, which will be considered by the House tomorrow. Below is a transcript of his remarks: 
Press Release: February 10, 2020

Hoyer: The President's Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Is Replete with Dangerous Proposals That Leave Working Families to Fend for Themselves

President Trump’s FY2021 budget is replete with dangerous proposals that leave working families to fend for themselves in a changing and uncertain economy.  This budget makes the President’s priorities clear: the wealthiest Americans come first ahead of working Americans who are trying to get by and get ahead.
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THE DAILY LEADER: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2020

FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Press Release: February 7, 2020

Hoyer Statement on White House Firing of Lt. Col. Vindman

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is a hero for standing up and speaking the truth, knowing it might cost him retaliation from this corrupt commander-in-chief. His removal from the White House was nothing more than an act of retribution, an intrusion against the nonpartisan nature of our military and federal service. I hope Republicans will join in a bipartisan condemnation of this attack on our military personnel.