Floor Statements

STATEMENT: APR 18, 2018

Hoyer: The GOP Tax Scam Does Little to Help Middle-Class Families, Is A Breathtaking Exercise in Fiscal Irresponsibility

When Americans pay their taxes, as millions did yesterday, they expect, rightfully, that their tax dollars will be used to benefit the many, not just the few.
STATEMENT: APR 12, 2018

Hoyer: Republicans’ Balanced Budget Amendment Is A Sham, A Fraud, A Pretense of Fiscal Responsibility

I thank the Speaker. I thank the Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, I rise today not so much to oppose this legislation, as to deride it, as a sham. As a fraud. As a pretense of fiscal responsibility.
STATEMENT: MAR 22, 2018

Hoyer to House Republicans: Have You Read This Bill?

I have been here for long enough to see my Republican colleagues bring to the Floor these bills and plop them down heavily on the table.
STATEMENT: MAR 21, 2018

Hoyer: We Must Take Real Action to Make Our Schools and Communities Safer From Gun Violence

Mr. Speaker, I am saddened and angered that a high school in my district, Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County, was the site of most recent school shooting, of which there have been 17 just since the beginning of this year. Two students were injured; the gunman, also a student, was killed; and an entire community of parents, students, teachers and faculty has been shaken by this violence.
STATEMENT: MAR 8, 2018

Hoyer Urges House Republicans to Bring Bills to the Floor to Protect DREAMers and to Prevent Gun Violence During Colloquy

The Speaker, Mr. Speaker, appeared on television on a Town Hall on CNN, some 14 months ago. He made a promise at a CNN Town Hall to a DREAMer that asked him a question.
STATEMENT: FEB 15, 2018

Hoyer Urges Speaker Ryan to Let the House Work Its Will On Legislation to Protect DREAMers

Madam Speaker, we have four legislative days before those protected by DACA will be at risk. The Speaker has said he was going to address this issue. He has not at this point in time.
STATEMENT: FEB 15, 2018

Hoyer Floor Remarks Opposing H.R. 620

I rise in strong opposition to this legislation. In 1990 President George H.W. Bush declared a long overdue independence day for people with disabilities as he signed the historic Americans with Disabilities Act into law.
STATEMENT: JAN 22, 2018

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the End of the Trump Shutdown

Mr. Speaker, as I said this morning, the reason why the government shut down is because the Republican majority has failed to fund the government.
STATEMENT: JAN 22, 2018

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the Trump Shutdown

Mr. Speaker, it's important for us to understand why we're here.
STATEMENT: JAN 21, 2018

Hoyer Asks For Unanimous Consent to Reopen Government and End the Trump Shutdown

We are in the second day of this Trump shutdown because Republicans won’t take yes for an answer.
 
STATEMENT: JAN 20, 2018

Hoyer Floor Remarks Asking For Unanimous Consent to Open Up the Government

Let me say at the outset, we ought to both put sanctimony aside.
STATEMENT: JAN 19, 2018

Hoyer Urges Republicans to Stay In Town Until They Responsibly Fund the Government

Ladies and gentlemen of the House, we are confronting a very serious situation as all of us know.
STATEMENT: JAN 18, 2018

Hoyer Floor Remarks on Republicans' Failure to Govern and Address the Priorities of the American People

Mr. Speaker, we are now four months into the fiscal year, and this is our fourth Continuing Resolution.  [Rep. Diaz-Balart] says now is the time to work things out. 
STATEMENT: JAN 10, 2018

Hoyer Floor Remarks on Latest GOP Attack on Worker's Rights

What a sad state of affairs.
STATEMENT: DEC 21, 2017

Hoyer Floor Remarks on Republicans’ Failure to Address Our Nation’s Priorities

Thank you very much, Mrs. Lowey. Here we are again, Mr. Speaker.
STATEMENT: DEC 14, 2017

Hoyer Floor Remarks Opposing Partisan Efforts to Undermine Mueller’s Investigation

I thank the Gentleman for yielding, I thank him for taking this time on the special order because, as an aside, I need to apologize to him for making him wait so long for this special order.
STATEMENT: DEC 7, 2017

Hoyer Floor Remarks on Republicans Not Getting the American People's Work Done

Mr. Speaker, we should not shut down the government of the United States.
STATEMENT: DEC 6, 2017

Hoyer Floor Remarks on Republican Concealed Carry Legislation

I want to thank Mr. Nadler for yielding.
STATEMENT: DEC 4, 2017

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the GOP Tax Scam

I thank Mr. Neal for yielding. The gentleman from Pennsylvania, as he well knows is one of my favorite Members. He's a good friend, he is a man of great integrity.
STATEMENT: NOV 29, 2017

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the Senate GOP Tax Scam

Well, I thank very much, the gentleman from Connecticut for his comments, in particular, highlighting how the majority party, considering this legislation, cut out the public entirely.
STATEMENT: NOV 16, 2017

Hoyer: There Is No Courage in Voting for This Bill

I thank the gentleman for yielding.
STATEMENT: NOV 14, 2017

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the GOP Tax Scam

Mr. Speaker, I was here when Democrats and Republicans came together to enact bipartisan tax reform in 1986. We paid for our tax overhaul and never once asked future generations to foot the bill.
STATEMENT: OCT 26, 2017

Hoyer Floor Remarks on the House Vote on the Senate Republican Budget

Mr. Speaker, I have been here, this is my thirty-seventh year.
STATEMENT: SEP 13, 2017

Hoyer Floor Remarks on Protecting DREAMers and the Need to Bring the DREAM Act to the Floor

Mr. Speaker, last week on the East Front of the Capitol on the lawn, I met with a group of DREAMers outside the Capitol.
STATEMENT: JUL 27, 2017

Hoyer: There May Be An Intent to Send Skinny Repeal Straight to the President

…Ladies and gentlemen, the United States Senate is now considering what is called a skinny bill on the Affordable Care Act.