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It is unacceptable that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has canceled all election security briefings for Congress, just two months before the election.

Sixty-five years ago today, fourteen-year old Emmett Till was brutally tortured and beaten to death by white supremacists.

WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today on the Committee on House Administration's hearing on how to safely vote during this pandemic: 

Today, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) announced the subcategory winners of the eleventh-annual 2020 Member Online All-Star Competition. The finalists were selected by the Majority Leader’s staff and shared on social media last week.

The news today of an encounter between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria underscore the dangers of this Administration’s lack of a strategy to protect our troops, support our allies, and promote an end to the conflict there that secures our interests. I remain deeply concerned that Vladimir Putin intends to use pressure on our military - as we saw with the reports several weeks ago of Russian bounties paid to the Taliban in Afghanistan for U.S. service members killed there - and influence our election and the direction of America’s global national security strategy.

Today, we celebrate Women’s Equality Day, which marks the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment into our Constitution, a turning point for voting rights and women’s equality, which would not have been possible without the extraordinary resolve of suffragists who marched, protested, and braved imprisonment and torture to win the right to vote.  We pay tribute to their resolve and to the sacrifices they made for equality and to make our union more perfect.

The shooting of Jacob Blake seven times in the back is another horrific reminder that racial injustice and systemic racism continues to devastate our nation.