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» Op-Ed: Commemorating Twenty Years of the ADA, July 26, 2010
Many of us have nearly forgotten an era in which it was commonplace for a person to be denied employment because she was blind, or unable to attend a university because he was in a wheelchair—an era in which people with disabilities were second-class citizens.

» Hoyer, Langevin, Sensenbrenner to Commemorate ADA at White House, July 26, 2010
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Reps. James Langevin (D-R.I.) and Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) will meet with President Barack Obama on Monday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

» House Democratic leader issues party's election battle cry, July 23, 2010
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., plans to detail Friday what's expected to be his party's rallying cry in this year's congressional elections: Republicans can't be trusted, and remember the economic horrors of the Bush administration.

» Addicted to Bush, July 23, 2010
For a couple of years, it was the love that dared not speak his name. In 2008, Republican candidates hardly ever mentioned the president still sitting in the White House.

» Making, not delaying, hard fiscal choices, July 13, 2010
David S. Broder's explanation of the House's one-year budget enforcement resolution, and of our nation's fiscal challenge, was at best superficial and at worst misleading ["A dereliction of fiscal duty," op-ed, July 8].

» What is Hoyer gunning for?, July 02, 2010
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is raising his profile both as a statesman and a partisan street brawler as the November elections near, moves that have drawn praise from Democrats while raising a few questions about what he’s gunning for.

» Both houses of Congress to debate war, June 29, 2010
Congress will debate its divisions over U.S. policy on Afghanistan a week after a Rolling Stone magazine article showed tensions in the Obama administration's war team that led to the dismissal of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as chief commander of American and NATO troops there.

» Hoyer aims to turn terror tables, June 28, 2010
Democrats have long been hobbled by a public image of being weak on terror and wobbly on national defense.

» Editorial: Time For Tough Economic Choices, June 24, 2010
In the longer term, they should heed the example of House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), who gave a brave speech this week not only setting out the fiscal challenge but offering specific, credible suggestions for savings.

» Follow the Leader, June 23, 2010
Congress isn't always the first place you look for intellectually honest discussion of America's fiscal dilemmas.

» Hoyer Makes Case for Scaled-Back Budget, June 22, 2010
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that Democrats would pursue a slimmed-down budget resolution before the July Fourth recess.

» Democrats Plan Short-Term Budgets, June 22, 2010
House and Senate Democrats are preparing to vote on one-year spending plans instead of adopting a regular five-year budget resolution — a strategy they once criticized Republicans for pursuing.

» Rep. Steny Hoyer says middle-class tax breaks may not be affordable long-term, June 22, 2010
Tax cuts that benefit the middle class should not be "totally sacrosanct" as policymakers try to plug the nation's yawning budget gap, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Monday, acknowledging that it would be difficult to reduce long-term deficits without breaking President Obama's pledge to protect families earning less than $250,000 a year.

» Hoyer: Reform’s Benefits Already in View, June 21, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed into law despite a chorus of misinformation.

» Government to the Economic Rescue, June 16, 2010
Let's start with two indisputable facts. First, both the financial system and the economy are in far better shape today than they were in the dark days of January or February 2009.

» 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Fight Encountered Heavy Military Resistance, June 03, 2010
During his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Obama gave a major boost to the campaign to repeal the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy when he called for its repeal.

» The Motion to Recommit, Hijacked by Politics, May 19, 2010
A little House parliamentary history: The motion to recommit goes back at least to the British Parliament and has existed in some form since the 1st Congress.

» Senate panel readies war funding bill, flood aid, May 12, 2010
A top Senate Democrat is fashioning a nearly $60 billion measure mixing war funding with U.S. disaster funds and aid for Haiti in hopes of jump-starting the long-delayed measure and clearing it through a nasty legislative thicket by Memorial Day.

» Hoyer: Shared Sacrifices Will Solve the Debt Crisis, April 28, 2010
Americans are rightly outraged over our nation's fiscal situation.

» Democrats’ Path Ahead Puts Hoyer in Dilemma, April 26, 2010
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) stands at a crossroads in the Democratic agenda.

» Hoyer: Review harassment rules, April 21, 2010
In the midst of the unfolding Eric Massa scandal, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has asked three entities charged with internal congressional issues to work together to strengthen harassment protections for staffers who feel their rights have been violated.

» Congressional leaders shelve D.C. voting rights bill, April 21, 2010
The decision by congressional leaders Tuesday to shelve a D.C. voting rights bill, just days after announcing plans to move ahead, scuttles what supporters say was the best opportunity in a generation to give the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives.

» Hoyer Lobbies Blue Dogs Not To Reject Reconciliation, April 08, 2010
Filing in to a caucus meeting in the middle of March in the Capitol Visitors Center, skittish House Democrats were just a few fragile days away from passing an historic health care overhaul, but leadership had yet to round up the necessary votes. Nervous members watched each other to see who would jump first.

» Averting another Foley affair, March 10, 2010
Isn’t it nice when a congressional leader does the right thing?

» Roll Call: Can We Please Stop Talking About Reconciliation?, March 09, 2010
My fellow Roll Call columnist Norman Ornstein was one of the authors of a truly excellent chart on reconciliation that appeared in the New York Times on Sunday.

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