Steny Hoyer

I view this as one of the most important civil rights and voting rights issues of our day.

One of the greatest blots on our democracy is having 700,000 of our citizens unable to be fully represented.

I strongly support statehood for the people of the District of Columbia.

No, we're not in an impeachment investigation.

Again, I will tell my friend, as he has articulated, that bill has not been marked up in committee. There are two bills that were marked up in committee, and there is a possibility that we will consider those, but the other bill was not…

In response to my friend, Madam Speaker, I will tell him that the committee did, in fact, mark up bills this past Wednesday, yesterday, and those bills are being looked at to possibly move to the floor.

I only want to say that I do not accept the premise that anything in this bill we just passed with a majority vote undermines training, operations, or acquisitions, period.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I think we have exhausted that subject. I think the positions have not changed since 1938, and I don't expect them to change in the next few minutes.

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, before I get into the schedule, I know that all of our thoughts are with my good friends in Louisiana and my good friend who represents Louisiana, his constituents, and the people of Louisiana…

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said there is no crisis at the border.

RFRA is an opportunity to correct these injustices.

I rise as the designee of Chairwoman Lowey of the Appropriations Committee, and I move that the Committee do now rise. The motion was agreed to. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Ms. Shalala) having assumed the…

We are about to deliver a chit, if you will, for a dinner for four at one of the famous crab houses here in Washington as the result of Louisiana's not treating the University of Maryland nearly as thoughtfully as they could have, and I…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I want to place in historical context, again, this House passed a DREAM Act, and we sent it to the Senate and the Senate didn't pass it. So this House, when we were in the majority, did do…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let me deal with the question of the supplemental, first. There is a humanitarian crisis at the border. We need to deal with it. The President came down with a request some two-plus weeks ago.

My friend mentioned there are essentially four components of the bill to which he referred, three of which are noncontroversial, as the gentleman knows, and one of which has issues with respect to its constitutionality. Without resolving…

First of all, I would say words are important. That is why we all debate, because we think words are important. But having said that, I share the gentleman's view, as he well knows, with reference to the BDS movement, which I think is…

Clearly, if we get an agreement--and that, of course, is the big if, but, hopefully, we can. If we can do that, then we will want to move as quickly as possible.

I thank the gentleman for his comments. I think the viewers and the Members of Congress are probably glazed over right now with these numbers, but I will tell the gentleman, there was not a single open rule in the House that was presided…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. The point of reciting the dollars that were included just some weeks ago to the administration is to point out that they had clearly significant sums with which to operate now, and we will see what funds…

That is why it is one of the three core components of the Make It In America plan I've been proud to lead.

Yesterday morning, a number of us met with President Trump at the White House to discuss the importance of investing in twenty-first century infrastructure.

I want to congratulate you for your leadership, and I want to also thank you for your leadership in our meeting with the President yesterday.

I have nothing further to say. I thank the gentleman from Louisiana.

I thank the gentleman for his question. As the gentleman knows, Madam Speaker, the House voted on this bill during the last two Congresses. The most recent time it was brought to the floor, the gentleman and his party were in control of…