Press Release

Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Department of Housing and Urban Development to ‘make sure that every family in America lives in a home of dignity and a neighborhood of pride, a community of opportunity, and a city of promise and hope.’

Like my colleagues, I have been spending much time analyzing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached with Iran. 

 For months now, I’ve been urging in my colloquy with the Majority Leader [Kevin McCarthy] that he sit down or Mr. Boehner sit down with us to agree on a compromise on what number can be used in order for us to pass a continuing resolution or appropriations bills to keep our government funded and operating on behalf of the American people. 

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after President Obama signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to offer their employees up to seven days of paid sick leave per year:

This Labor Day, I join in thanking the hardworking men and women who have made our nation’s growth and prosperity possible and continue to strengthen our position in the global economy. 

This morning’s jobs report once again shows an economy adding private sector jobs, with 140,000 created in August, representing the sixty-sixth consecutive month of private sector job gains - and the unemployment rate falling to 5.1%.  

I join in thanking Jerry Hartz for his nearly three decades of service to the House of Representatives.

Ten years ago, the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast endured one of the most powerful and destructive hurricanes in our history, taking more than 1,800 lives and destroying entire neighborhoods.