Press Release

On Thursday, July 9, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and House Democrats held the first hearing in a series of hearings titled “Make It In America: What’s Next?”

Five years ago, the Democratic-led Congress and President Obama successfully took action, over strong Republican opposition, to address many of the problems that led to the financial crisis in 2008 and the deepest recession in a generation.

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) announced the winners of the 2015 Member Online All-Star Competition today. See below for the list of Members, Committees, and Caucuses that have been named 2015 Online All-Stars.

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today in support of the letter by Senators Cardin and Corker urging President Obama to delay the U.N. Security Council's vote on the Iran deal until after Congress has reviewed the agreement:

Today, the Senate took a major step forward to promote the full-service community schools model across the country, adopting as an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act the language of the Full Service Community Schools Act that I’ve introduced for several years in the House. 

I’m proud to join my colleagues today in introducing the Equal Dignity for Married Taxpayers Act.

While the House took action to prevent the Highway Trust Fund from expiring at the end of this month, which would have put thousands of construction jobs in jeopardy and undermined key investments to maintain our nation’s highway and transit network infrastructure, we cannot continue to go from short-term fix to short-term fix. 

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H.