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Hoyer Statement on Conference Report Targeting Federal Workers
February 17, 2012

I know that everybody on my side would have supported the agreement that Mr. Van Hollen and I put forward.
Hoyer Statement On Republicans' Pay Freeze On Federal Employees
February 1, 2012

We ought to have a bill, we ought to pass Mr. Van Hollen's bill, we ought to take this out of the politics and then I tell my friends what we ought to do is pass the big deal. We ought to pass a $4 trillion to $6 trillion big deal to get the fiscal house in order of the United States of America. And it ought to include all things on the table, including federal employee pay and benefits, including the military pay and benefits and expenditures, and domestic expenditures as well as entitlements. I've said that. We ought not to do it piecemeal as this bill reflects.
Whip Hoyer Honors the Service of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
January 25, 2012

"Our beloved colleague, Gabrielle Giffords, was injured on the field in the exercise of that democracy and in being injured; she has become an example for us, for all Americans, indeed all the world of courage, of clarity, of purpose, of grace, of responsibility, of a sense of duty which she exercises this day."
Whip Hoyer Discusses President Obama's State of the Union Address on CNBC
January 25, 2012

“I think this speech was a call to compete, a call to grow jobs here in America. [House Democrats] have an agenda Make It In America. He talked about manufacturing in America. It's the same deal. We've lost nine million manufacturing jobs, that has shrunk the middle class, its undermined people's opportunities. The President is saying, look, we've got to do better. We've got to bring them home, we've got to have the jobs created here.
Whip Hoyer Discusses President Obama's State of the Union Address on CNN
January 25, 2012

“I thought it was an excellent speech. I thought it was a serious speech. We have a lot of challenges. The President obviously focused on what I think is critical to the American people that's jobs, first of all… We've had an agenda we call it Make It In America in the Congress of the United States for the last two years. We’ve talked to the President about it. His manufacturing focus we think was absolutely right. We’ve lost 9 million manufacturing jobs over the last 20 years. We need to expand our manufacturing sector. We need to make things here in America.

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