Steny Hoyer

However, the principal proponents of that resolution, obviously, the relationship with Turkey is a very important one for the United States. It is a critical time in the Middle East. Turkey has been, obviously, a great help in some…

I can't represent to the gentleman the specific plan because I have not gotten that from Mr. Obey, what his thoughts are on that or what his discussions have been with Senator Byrd or with the subcommittee Chairs in both of the bodies…

Madam 'Change' Leader, we passed the minimum wage increase in the first 100 hours that we came to power in Washington, D.C.

I want to thank the whip. I had the opportunity of meeting with Mr. Boehner. Their staffs have been engaged. Our staffs have been engaged. Senate Democratic and Republican staff and Members have been engaged. We're still working on that…

As you know, we have followed the PAYGO rules since we adopted them, and we intend to hew to that practice. And we think it's the appropriate practice, rather than borrow $50 billion today to give taxpayers relief so that our children can…

I don't have that dollar amount, but I know that it's in the $50 billion category to do a temporary patch, which we have done over the last few years. We borrowed the money each time we've done that, but it's about $50 billion. We intend…

Madam change (ph) leader, we passed the minimum wage act in the first 100 hours that we came to power in Washington, D.C.

Madam change leader, we passed the minimum wage increase in the first 100 hours that we came to power in Washington, D.C.

I don't want that read as saying I believe that we can get all 12 appropriation bills before November 16 because the Senate has only passed, as you point out, four of the 12 at this point in time. We are hopeful that they will have bills…

I think you ought to anticipate some Iraq legislation coming to the floor, not necessarily next week, although that is a possibility. But, certainly, within the next couple of weeks or 3 weeks, I would think we will have various components…

My expectation is we will have a continuing resolution on the floor next week. We don't intend to shut down government. I know that a number of Members on your side have indicated it's not their intention to shut down government. We…

We believe the TRIA bill is a very, very important bill. Chairman Frank has been very involved in this, as have bipartisan Members of the Financial Services Committee been involved in this. ... The TRIA bill, as you observed, has raised an…

I know how concerned you all have been that you haven't gotten sufficient time to consider legislation that's put before you. We have had this for 6 or 7 minutes, and, of course, we have read it page to page. Reading it page to page, we…

I want to tell every Member of this House that I do not believe that there was any wrongdoing by any party yesterday. I do believe that there was a mistake made. I said that this morning. I repeat that this afternoon, and I regret it. I…

The simpler way to do it and the confidence-building way to do that seems to me, because we want to use these machines, is to allow the technicians the opportunity to fix the machines. That is our desire. Now, we understand that if you…

Under those circumstances, the reason I made the offer to vacate, the request for the unanimous consent to vacate, is because you can't verify it, and I have a list here in front of me. It may or may not be accurate. The machines are…

For all of us who think that dastardly things are going on, I guess we're all trying to figure out who's doing the dastardly things. In any event, in answer to your question, it would be my intention to rise while the machines are being…

I will repeat: We are hopeful that we will be able to move forward in the future, next year, as we do the appropriation process, consistent with what we did on the first 10 bills and what we may do on the twelfth bill, in a manner that…

Mr. Speaker, very frankly, as I have said, we have spent almost 80 hours more on the first 10 bills than we spent last year under the unanimous consents we granted to you under Mr. Obey's leadership. Given that fact, we considered a lot of…

We are very, very hopeful that the lobbying disclosure conference can proceed. As the gentleman knows, we have not gotten clearance on the other side to do so, so we are very concerned about that. This House passed the lobbying disclosure…

I can say with respect to conferences, we have every intent of doing the 9/11 conference, as the gentleman knows, and passing that before we leave for the August break.

How did it get to be $8.8 trillion? When you took over, it was only at $5 trillion. How in heaven's name over the last 6 years could you possibly be so irresponsible to take it from $5.5 trillion to $8.8 trillion? I am amazed, shocked…

I want to congratulate certainly Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who, in her third year, has become a cardinal, in large part because of her energy and her focus and her talent and her experience in the State Senate in Florida and the House in…

No, it was part of the agreement. And we expect to move forward on open rules. But I want to make it clear and don't want to undermine the agreement but I want to make it clear, if we are subjected to what we believe were dilatory tactics…

Every earmark starting with Monday forward, obviously we know that these two bills are moving tonight, our agreement is that every earmark going forward will be included in the bills. The only complication is both sides have recognized…