Press Release

This morning, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) appeared on CBS's “The Early Show” to discuss recent threats against Members of Congress following the House's vote on health care reform.

The Senate is expected to complete work this afternoon on the improvements bill to the new health care reform law.

Speaker Pelosi has appointed three Members of Congress representing the diverse perspectives of the Democratic Caucus to the president's vital, bipartisan fiscal commission.

In the winter of 2008, America did not know whether it was heading for a Second Great Depression.

Health care reform that will provide access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans is now law.

In 1780, when our nation was struggling to be born, and John Adams was far from home, he wrote this in a letter to his wife: I must study politics and war, so that my sons have the liberty to study commerce, so that their sons have the right to study literature, and art, and music.

This morning, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) appeared on NBC's “Meet the Press” to discuss today's expected vote on health insurance reform.

Today's protests against health insurance reform saw a rash of despicable, inflammatory behavior, much of it directed at minority Members of Congress.