Steny Hoyer

The House voted by a pretty good number to instruct the conferees on the issue of overtime pay, a substantial number of votes from his side and most of the votes from our side, if not all, all but two. Can the leader tell me whether or not…

Mr. Leader, I think I am correct that every tax bill that we have passed over the last 3 years has been sunsetted. Therefore, pursuant to your rationale on child tax credit, in effect those bills would be raising taxes, sometimes in 2010…

I would hope that the Senate would realize that allowing the child tax credit to expire in just a couple of years is actually raising taxes, and would accept the House bill that makes them permanent.

But everyone sitting at that table, at the time, wants a bill. And they work hard to get the bill rather than try to kill a bill. So, it is very easy to work in that configuration as the appropriators usually do. And when everybody comes…

No region of the world in my opinion holds out more promise and presents more peril than the Middle East. Our Nation's security is closely tied to the developments there, from our efforts in post-Hussein Iraq where 130,000 American troops…

That was a meeting with the President. I agree with the gentleman. It was not a conference meeting, however. It may have been a meeting with the President. We hope that we will proceed. The FAA conference report, we were told that that was…

But, Mr. Speaker, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations is operating in the context of the most fiscally irresponsible policy that any administration and majority has followed in the history of this country. I pause for emphasis…

I have had an opportunity to discuss this briefly with the chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers); and I would hope that the committee, having accepted the Senate's position, which I do not share, as I share…

I join my Indiana colleagues. I knew Frank O'Bannon pretty well... He was a wonderful, intelligent, kind, and humble gentleman who, along with Judy, worked tirelessly for all Hoosiers and who cared deeply about his country and his State…

We talked about Thursday, September 11, when we will come together, controversies that we have discussed. The significant differences we have discussed with respect to how to solve the problems that confront this country will I think be…

I thank the leader for his observations on that. Two additional questions. The next one would be the Medicare prescription drug bill. Obviously this is a very contentious piece of legislation, with different perspectives on how we can…

I believe the amendment is not at all harmful to the objective of putting in place an election system that works for every American and is accurate and accessible and trustworthy. Her suggestion that the money not lapse, that it moves…

I would say to my friend, I know the differences that the chairman pointed to and you have pointed to in terms of making this either permanent or at least 10 years in authorization. I do not, frankly, think there would be opposition to…

The gentleman is a good friend of mine. I have great respect for him. He is also a Member of this House that is closest to the President of the United States, perhaps. The President of the United States said that we ought to do what the…

I do also, with the time the gentleman from Georgia yielded to me, want to again congratulate him and the committee on the mass transit benefit program that he has included in this bill. With that, Mr. Speaker, let me say that I appreciate…

It is almost an avalanche of support for the position of this side, and some enlightened souls on your side of the aisle, and so perhaps we ought to conclude before we have such an overwhelming majority that there will be no alternative…

I do not see Child Tax Credit legislation listed on next week's schedule. We have a bill, as I think you probably know, the Rangel/DeLauro/ Davis bill, that will make sure working families and our service members left out of the recently…

Reclaiming my time, and obviously I do not have more time, I wish I had more time because this is an important debate. My question to you is, A; let me ask you this, yes or no, if you can. Do you believe the only way to terminate an…

Do you believe there is a procedure that is more humane or more acceptable than partial birth for the termination of a pregnancy?

I ask this because I believe it is the nub of the debate. Does the gentleman from Georgia believe there is a procedure to terminate a pregnancy that is more humane or more appropriate than the partial-birth abortion?

You do recall that he got more votes, however, than Mr. Nixon. Unlike Mr. Bush, who got less votes than Mr. Gore.

Over a hundred years ago Republicans and Democrats came together to prevent and preclude and to eliminate a politicized patronage system that was sucking down the quality of public service. What the amendment says is that we will not…

Reclaiming my time, when this proposal was originally made, I said if it is a proposal in lieu of ensuring proper pay for Federal employees, then I would oppose it, and I would oppose it vigorously. I do not think the administration is yet…

I did appreciate the opportunity to come and testify, notwithstanding the fact that the committee did not follow my advice. My point is that the majority of Members on both sides of the aisle are not on your committee or the Committee on…

But what my colleague is saying is that the dean of the House comes to your committee and wants to offer an amendment, and your committee responds, no, Dean, you have served here 40-plus years, but we know better than you do.