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WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after the House passed H.R.

WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today on the White House signing ceremony for the American Rescue Plan: 

WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement tonight on President Biden's prime-time address marking one year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic:

With the signing of the American Rescue Plan today, President Biden is wasting no time to begin getting economic relief to the American people and deploying much-needed resources to increase vaccinations and testing so that businesses and schools can safely reopen. 
WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke at a press conference today ahead of House passage on the American Rescue Plan. Below is a transcript of his remarks:
Madam Speaker, as we work to create jobs and build our economy back better, we need to make sure that the jobs that are available to Americans help them get by and get ahead.  That’s why Democrats passed the PRO Act last year and why we will do so again today.
WASHINGTON, DC - House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after Senator Roy Blunt announced that he will retire at the end of the 117th Congress:
As we mark International Women's Day, we do so this year recognizing that women have borne the brunt of the economic hardship that has resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic - both in the United States and around the world. 
I can think of no greater way of memorializing John Lewis and those who faced violence alongside him in Selma, fifty-six years ago today, than to take additional steps to protect and expand access to voting.
The Senate has now passed President Biden's American Rescue Plan to provide long-awaited relief to Americans suffering from the economic impacts of COVID-19 and to boost our capacity to save lives by ramping up the deployment of testing and vaccines.