Steny Hoyer

Before yielding to the majority leader to inquire about the schedule for the week to come, let me say I join with the gentleman from Virginia, and I know certainly Mr. Cantor, who also represents Virginia, but the entire country as well…

I will assure the majority leader that we will maintain our flexibility on schedule. I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

That doesn't clarify it very much, but I understand the gentleman's problem with respect to what is being done. Let me ask the gentleman: If we can't get agreement, in light of the gentleman's focus on the 16th as the date of adjournment…

Further on the schedule, just so our Members have pretty clear information, the week of the 19th, which is the following week, can you give me some thought on what you are advising your Members with respect to the week of the 19th? I yield…

Reclaiming my time, thank you for that. Let me posit a possibility here. Thursday at 3 o'clock we clearly, I don't believe, aren't going to finish the business that we need to finish before we leave. Therefore, my presumption is we will be…

I thank the gentleman for his information. If I can clarify, and I understand that we are coming up to the end of the year. There is a lot of business which needs to be done in the time remaining, and so I understand his urging to be…

Don't just preach fiscal responsibility; practice it. It will take no courage to vote for this amendment. But it will take courage to balance our budget by paying for what we buy.

Reclaiming my time, is there anything I said that you believe is factually inaccurate? I yield to my friend.

I thank the gentleman for his information. Before I talk about the American Jobs Act, does the majority leader have an estimate from either CBO or any economist on how many jobs over the next 24 months might be created as a result of the…

I thank the gentleman for his comments, and I thank him for his time today. I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

Reclaiming my time. I do know that very, very well. We had surpluses, not deficits.

I thank the gentleman. When you say all of that has been offset, it is my understanding that in fact in the CR for 2011--not for 2012, but for 2011--there is a $1.5 billion offset included; is that accurate? {time} 1330

I thank the gentleman for his information. I note that he has indicated the CR will be considered sometime next week, either Tuesday, but most likely on Wednesday. It's my understanding that the supplemental for emergency requirements of…

I do not know whether that will be the ultimate conclusion, whether Boeing in fact violated the law by retaliating. And I've told my friends at Boeing that I don't know that that's going to be the conclusion. But I do know this: I am for…

I thank the gentleman for the information he has given to us. Can I inquire, as the gentleman knows, when we left for the August break there was a very substantial issue with respect to the FAA. Does the gentleman know whether there will…

Reclaiming my time, when I speak about Make It in America, there is not a person on this floor, the most conservative, the most liberal, and everybody in between, who is not for our young people and all of our people making it in America…

Ladies and gentlemen, I have said numerous times during the course of this debate about whether America was going to pay its bills and that we need to vote, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans: Americans concerned about the…

We are here because we missed, as I said, a great opportunity, a chance to pass now a truly balanced agreement that relies on both spending cuts and revenue. We're not there, but I have said many times during the course of this debate that…

We need to return the fiscal responsibility.

I thank the gentleman for his information, and I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

I don't know the answer to that, Anderson. But the question is not whether John Boehner can survive or whether Steny Hoyer can survive. The issue is, will the best interests of America survive?

We have to get a handle on the deficit. We have to bring down our national debt. It's not sustainable.

The party of no has walked away repeatedly now when we've tried to come to an agreement.

I don't think I've seen anything just like this with the stakes so very high and every leader in the Republican Party believing that we ought not to put the credit of the United States at risk and possibly default for the first time in the…

I believe it is, yes, Anderson. I think that the Democrats have clearly made a determination that this is a bad bill, a bad bill for the country. It doesn't represent any kind of a compromise.