Steny Hoyer

I rise, Mr. Speaker, to support this resolution concerning the revision of the document, Women in Congress, 1917 to 1990. This book chronicles the biographies of the 129 women who served in the House and Senate during that period, but…

I thank the gentleman. One additional question. As he knows, we have been talking for some period of time now about the creation of a select committee on election reform. Does the gentleman have any idea whether we might have a proposal on…

We urged the leaders in Russia to ensure that that station would remain independent, because we know that a democracy cannot flourish without an independent press, without independent criticism, without an independent voice letting the…

I want to say that, having known him for a long period of time, there is no doubt in my mind that he has himself been a spark, an inspiration to many, many young people, not only in his home area of South Carolina, but around this country…

Mr. Speaker, I said earlier that on Sunday I would be marching across the Edmond Pettis Bridge. One of the people that I am sure will be walking with us is a great fighter for civil rights who was there during the darkest days, most…

I am proud of the fact that working men and women of America who are organized support me. They do so because they believe I support them. Two Republicans said that is not right. If we are going to spend public money, we ought to pay the…

Seven pounds, two ounces, I understand, of beautiful baby girl. As the father of three young women myself, I know the joy of having a daughter. And, of course, I know the gentleman's son well, and he is going to be blessed with his sister…

We have had this argument in our committee before, and I ask the gentleman why then does he not believe that all the education money that we appropriate in his bill should not be simply block granted? Let me give a specific example.

So it would be the local school board's choice, the local citizens' choice whether or not to utilize these resources.

Is it the proposition of the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Young) if we did not pass this CR and we still continue another 24 hours, because the CR expires, as the gentleman said 24 hours from now or 36 hours from now, that the…

I rise today at the occasion of the passage of this CR to lament the fact that not only have we not completed the appropriations bills... In my opinion, we have not accomplished them because we had leadership and a majority in this House…

I wish the gentleman would not take down the chart, because I want to read from his very beautiful chart. He read 1990, 51; 1991, 36 days; 1992, 57 days; 1993, 5 days; 1994, 41 days, then came 1995 which, of course, we passed in 1994, the…

We talk about these institutions giving extraordinary opportunities to African Americans, and they do. Bowie State University in my county is the place from which Christa McAuliffe graduated with her Master's degree. Christa McAuliffe, as…

I rise to, perhaps, discuss this in a little different perspective, but I think an important one. Many pieces of legislation come to this floor and we focus on them because they seek to focus on personal responsibility. Unfortunately, in…

We have concerns about both the process and the substance, which is why we mentioned both.

If that is the case, why does not the majority, which controls both Houses, send the bills as they think they ought to be to the White House and let them veto them and let the American public see what is going on?

Let me suggest that it may not be hypothetical at all as it relates to how Members feel they can vote on this particular rule, because they will know if they vote on this rule that they may or may not be precluded from taking such action…

I want to say to all colleagues in the House, I do not think there is anybody in the House who has spent more time on making sure that the Internal Revenue Service is an effective agency efficiently collecting the revenues that are due to…

I want to say before the gentleman leaves the floor, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) continues to be one of our ranks who I think is most focused on human rights throughout this world. He takes an extraordinary amount of his own…

I think the HIDTA program is one of the best programs in our bill, and I look forward to working with her and the chairman and the administration to properly fund it.

Mr. Chairman, I rise to simply speak on behalf of the amendment that was already adopted, which I strongly support... using biodiesel reduces carbon dioxide emissions 16 percent. Now that may have already been mentioned, but it bears…

I rise simply to say that we do have a lot of interests in my district in farming and agriculture. We have a lot of interest obviously in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, and I want to thank the gentleman from New Mexico for…

I would urge my colleagues in the Congress to reject this amendment and not stop the study from being completed. We will argue the issue of dredging at some later time.

I am about to say that but for the tax cut, there would be revenues available to have paid for this amendment. I understand the Chair is going to rule it out of order because the Committee on Rules has not protected it and therefore has…

Obviously, we have talked a lot about in the previous decade, previous century about prevention, about how health care would be much cheaper if we prevented illness as opposed to treating illness. Nothing has been so successful, I think…