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WASHINGTON – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after dozens of Republicans changed their votes and voted not to table a privileged resolution to impeach Vice President Cheney that was offered by Rep.
On Tuesday, the House will vote to override the President’s veto of WRDA.
One year ago, the American people looked at Congress, and here’s what they saw: They saw a rubber-stamp for the Bush Administration.

WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after the Senate passed the House version of the Children’s Health Insurance Program bill:
 
“The House will not send the Children’s Health Insurance Program bill to the President immediately.  We will c
This week, Democrats will move forward a package of bills that invest in the nation’s top priorities.
When TAA was established in 1962, it represented a commitment to ensure the viability of American workers adversely affected by international trade.
While it may be fitting for President Bush to trot out bogeymen on Halloween, his comments today are a clear sign that he is isolated and desperate in his attempt to block bipartisan legislation extending health insurance to 10 million low-income American children.
Today, rather than working with Democrats and Republicans in Congress who are determined to extend health insurance to 10 million low-income, working-class American children, the top two Republican leaders in the House of Representatives chose to stand with the one person who constitutes the biggest obstacle to providing that health coverage – President Bush.
Today, the House passed legislation extending the Internet tax moratorium for seven years, the longest extension since the moratorium began.