Press Release

Good afternoon. I’m honored to be with you today for the eighteenth annual National Health Policy Conference.
 

Tonight, the House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to allow the release of the Democratic-produced memo providing greater clarity into the FBI’s pursuit of a FISA warrant connected with the investigation into Russian efforts to subvert our democracy. 

I join in celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the landmark Family and Medical Leave Act.  For a quarter of a century, Americans have been protected from losing their jobs as a result of illness, pregnancy, adoption, or having to care for a loved-one who is sick. 

Today’s dramatic drop in the Dow index of 1,175 points, the worst single-day point drop in its history, reflects a growing concern that the economy cannot keep pace with the promises made by this President and Republicans in Congress.

Today, Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) sent a letter to Speaker Paul Ryan urging him to remove Rep. Devin Nunes from his position as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee after he altered a partisan, misleading classified memo and transmitted it to the White House without review or approval from the Committee.

Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) joined House and Senate Democrats today in sending a letter to President Trump warning him against using the newly-released partisan Nunes Memo as a pretext to fire either Special Counsel Bob Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein – who is overseeing Special Counsel Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Today, the President of the United States chose to ignore the serious warnings of the Department of Justice, FBI, and the intelligence community to release a doctored classified memo for the purposes of smearing the law enforcement agencies investigating his campaign.

This morning’s jobs report shows that the work done during the Obama Administration to help the private sector get more Americans back to work continues, if more slowly, under President Trump.