PRESS RELEASE: JUN 21, 2018 Hoyer, Lee Statement on Trump Administration's Proposed Reorganization of Anti-Poverty Programs Once again, President Trump is working to pull the rug out from under working families.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 21, 2018 Hoyer Statement on House Passage of GOP Farm Bill After having failed to pass their partisan Farm Bill last month, Republican leaders brought to the Floor a second time a bad bill that takes food assistance away from hungry families.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 21, 2018 Hoyer Remarks at Press Conference on the Health Impact of President Trump’s Family Separation Policy I don’t have a white coat on, I’m not a doctor, I’m not a med student, I’m not a psychiatrist, or a psychologist, or a nurse practitioner.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 20, 2018 Hoyer Discusses President Trump’s Family Separation Policy on NPR’s All Things Considered [The President’s executive order] really doesn't change very much of the reality on the ground. It simply says that children can be incarcerated in a prison-like context, pending a determination of the individuals’ claim of asylum.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 20, 2018 Hoyer: Trump's Executive Order Does Not Resolve The Family Separation Crisis Of His Own Making For the past two weeks, President Trump has said over and over again that his hands were tied and that only Congress could end the separation of families seeking asylum at our borders.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 19, 2018 Hoyer Statement on Juneteenth On the nineteenth of June, 1865, the last enslaved people in America learned of their freedom. It was – and has since been – a day of celebration and reflection.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 19, 2018 Hoyer Statement on the Introduction of the Keep Families Together Act Today, House Democrats, led by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler, introduced H.R. 6135, a bill I am cosponsoring that will end the separation of families at our borders.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 19, 2018 Hoyer Statement on Release of the GOP Budget The budget resolution unveiled today by Chairman Womack, sixty-five days overdue, cannot be considered a serious effort at planning for the fiscal year ahead or the long term.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 19, 2018 Hoyer Statement on the Latest GOP Attempt to Repeal the ACA After Republicans have repeatedly failed to overcome broad, popular opposition to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Heritage Foundation and the extreme wing of House Republicans are trying once again to take health coverage away from millions, eliminate protections for those with pre-existing conditions, impose an age tax on older Americans, and threaten Medicare.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 19, 2018 Hoyer Statement on the Trump Administration's Rule Allowing the Sale of Junk Insurance Plans The rule unveiled today, in spite of warnings from patient advocates, health care providers, and insurers alike, is directly intended to undermine our health care system.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 18, 2018 Hoyer: Shame On President Trump For Separating Families at the Border President Trump’s remarks today were tone deaf and displayed a profound misunderstanding about what this country is all about.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 15, 2018 Hoyer Floor Remarks After Leader McCarthy Canceled the Weekly Colloquy Mr. Speaker, normally at this time, the Majority Leader and I do a colloquy. We do a colloquy to discuss the schedule for the week to come.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 15, 2018 Hoyer Remarks at Press Conference with House Democrats, Tri-Caucus Members, and DREAMers to Commemorate 6th Anniversary of DACA I’m here to say Amen! Greisa, that was fantastic.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 14, 2018 Hoyer: House Republicans' Draft Immigration Bill Is No Compromise At All The immigration bill unveiled this afternoon by the Speaker is no compromise at all. It is a bill hurried to the Floor in days with the sole purpose of derailing a fair, bipartisan Queen of the Hill process.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 14, 2018 Hoyer Statement on the Department of Justice Inspector General’s Report President Trump continues to try to undermine Americans’ independent law enforcement institutions in order to defend himself against the special counsel’s investigation.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 14, 2018 Hoyer Statement on Eid al-Fitr All across America tonight, Muslim families and communities will gather to celebrate Eid al-Fitr and mark the conclusion of Ramadan.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 13, 2018 Hoyer: Republicans Are Continuing Their Stealth Attack on the ACA and the Benefits It Has Provided for Millions of Americans In fact [Republicans’ ] couldn’t pass any of their bills, because they’re all ‘mean’.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 12, 2018 Hoyer Statement on Speaker Ryan's Latest Promise to Bring DACA Legislation to the Floor Hundreds of thousands of young people in our country remain in legal limbo because of President Trump’s misguided and unnecessary decision to end the DACA program.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 12, 2018 Hoyer Statement on Reports the Trump Administration is Preparing to House Immigrant Children in Tent Cities It is horrifying that the Trump Administration is not only prying young children from their parents’ arms but also considering placing those children to live, alone and exposed, in tent cities.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 12, 2018 Hoyer Statement on the Passing of Dorothy Cotton I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dorothy Cotton.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 12, 2018 Hoyer Statement on the North Korea Summit While diplomacy with our adversaries is fundamental to a smart approach in foreign affairs, it must be carried out wisely and in concert with our allies.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 11, 2018 Hoyer, Pelosi, Ranking Democrats Joint Statement Ahead of Start of North Korea Summit The U.S.-North Korea summit that will begin shortly is an historic opportunity to build a more secure, stable Korean Peninsula and to reassert American leadership in Asia.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 11, 2018 Hoyer Statement on SCOTUS Ruling Allowing Voters to be Purged from Ohio Voter Rolls I am very disappointed by today’s ruling in Husted v. APRI.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 10, 2018 Hoyer Statement on the 55th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act Fifty-five years ago today, President Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act, which put into statute for the first time that men and women are to be paid equally for the same work.
PRESS RELEASE: JUN 8, 2018 Hoyer Statement on President Trump's Comments on Russia and the G-7 President Trump should not be rewarding Russia while it continues to flaunt international laws and norms, promote aggression against its neighbors, and attempt to interfere in the free elections of democracies, including our own.
