Hoyer Floor Remarks After Leader McCarthy Canceled the Weekly Colloquy
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For Immediate Release:
June 15, 2018
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WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke on the House Floor today after Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy canceled this week's colloquy to review the schedule on the Floor for the week ahead. Below is a link to the video and transcript of his remarks:
“Mr. Speaker, normally at this time, the Majority Leader and I do a colloquy. We do a colloquy to discuss the schedule for the week to come.
"My suspicion is they don't know what the schedule is for the week to come, because they were going to offer two immigration bills to undermine the proposal that so many have made to have four alternatives on DACA available for the People's House to speak for the people.
“We are noting today six years since President Obama put into place protection for DACA protectees. Mr. Speaker, 86% of the American people support doing just that. And the President asked this House to act. And Mr. Aguilar and Mr. Hurd, in a bipartisan way [introduced the USA Act]. Everybody says to the public: yes, we want to work in a bipartisan way. Well, you have the opportunity to do it. And you have retreated from that responsibility and that assertion.
"I lament the fact that we have not acted, as the President asked us to, on protecting DACA. They are Americans in everything but paper.”
“Mr. Speaker, normally at this time, the Majority Leader and I do a colloquy. We do a colloquy to discuss the schedule for the week to come.
"My suspicion is they don't know what the schedule is for the week to come, because they were going to offer two immigration bills to undermine the proposal that so many have made to have four alternatives on DACA available for the People's House to speak for the people.
“We are noting today six years since President Obama put into place protection for DACA protectees. Mr. Speaker, 86% of the American people support doing just that. And the President asked this House to act. And Mr. Aguilar and Mr. Hurd, in a bipartisan way [introduced the USA Act]. Everybody says to the public: yes, we want to work in a bipartisan way. Well, you have the opportunity to do it. And you have retreated from that responsibility and that assertion.
"I lament the fact that we have not acted, as the President asked us to, on protecting DACA. They are Americans in everything but paper.”