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Press Releases

» Learn How Health Reform Will Affect You, November 06, 2009
an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" style program to learn how H.R.3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, will affect you...

» ECONOMY WEEKLY - WEEK OF NOVEMBER 2, 2009, November 06, 2009
Today, the President signed the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act into law, which extends unemployment benefits to those who have been jobless for a long period of time, provides tax incentives to prospective homebuyers, and includes tax cuts for struggling businesses.

» Hoyer Statement on October Jobs Report, November 06, 2009
Today’s news that the unemployment rate has surpassed 10% is unacceptable.

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Multimedia

» Health Care Reform Analyzed on the Early Show, November 07, 2009
We hope it will be more than that and if it is, that will be a bonus. But it obviously takes 218 votes to pass the bill. That's what we're looking for. But the real focus is on the substance of this Bill and what it does for America... [TRANSCRIPT]

» Hoyer Provides Vote Expectancy for the Health Care Bill on ABC, November 07, 2009
That's the biggest hurdle was convincing, as you point out, Progressives and Bluedogs, that the compromises that had been reached, the legislation that was fashioned, is, in fact, good for the country. Good for constituents. Good for small business. Good for their families. I think we've done that... [TRANSCRIPT]

» Hoyer Talks about House Vote on Health Care on MSNBC, November 07, 2009
We think we'll have 218 by the time we vote on this bill later on this afternoon or early this evening. We think that all the members of the Democratic Caucus without exception believe that we need to pass major health care reform so that we can make health care affordable and accessible for all Americans... [TRANSCRIPT]

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Statements and Speeches

» 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.

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Articles

» Re-Imagining What a School Can Be, October 01, 2009
Why do so many schools have auditoriums? Why do they have athletic fields? We take features like those for granted today, but there was a time when a school building with anything more than classrooms and chalkboards was considered wildly unorthodox.

» Hoyer out of Pelosi’s shadow, September 25, 2009
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) over the past week has slammed ACORN, renewed his offer to negotiate with one of the GOP's chief Democratic antagonists and said that he could live without a public option in healthcare reform.

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Issue Spotlights

» Congress Sends to the President the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act, November 05, 2009
Today, the House passed the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act to the President for his signature.

» House Introduces Health Care Reform Legislation, October 29, 2009
Today, the House of Representatives introduced health care reform legislation.

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