Press Release
House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) will serve as the senior Member of a group of 21 House Democrats visiting Israel and the West Bank from August 2nd to 8th to learn more about issues critical to the U.S.-Israel relationship and international security.
Yesterday's vote to form a constituent assembly in Venezuela represents a dangerous setback for democracy in our hemisphere.
As the House begins the August District Work Period, House Republicans are back in their districts after seven months in session with effectively no legislative accomplishments to show for it.
The Democratic Whip Office’s eighth annual Member Online All-Star Competition recently came to a close.
Well, I think that's disingenuous, we told them how we were going to fix it. We adopted the Affordable Care Act.
I was proud to be Majority Leader when we brought the DREAM Act to the Floor. This is about dreams, but it’s also about the American dream, the hope that America offers people.
Thank you very much. Senator Collins and Senator Murkowski and Senator McCain voted what their 49 Republican colleagues were thinking. It was not a bill that would have been positive for the American people, and it was defeated.
President Putin’s decision to seize U.S. diplomatic property and expel some of our personnel will not change the fact that Russia will face consequences for its interference in our election, its intervention in eastern Ukraine, and its illegal occupation of Crimea. The House and the Senate have now passed a tough sanctions bill by veto-proof margins, and it is incumbent upon the President to sign this legislation.
…I’m not happy at the dysfunction in Washington, DC, and I don't think the American people are, either.
The Senate has now rejected every option to repeal outright or repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act that President Trump and Senator McConnell put before it. It could not be clearer that there is no majority to take the benefits of this law away from millions of Americans.