ENG: Steny Hamilton Hoyer (born June 14, 1939) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Maryland's 5th congressional district since 1981. On November 16, 2006, Hoyer was elected as House Majority Leader over John Murtha of Pennsylvania. He is the first Marylander to become Majority Leader.
Early life and family
Hoyer was born in New York City but grew up in Mitchellville, Maryland. His mother, Jean Baldwin, was American, and his father, Steen Theilgaard Høyer, was Danish and a native of Copenhagen; "Steny" is a variant of his father's name, "Steen", and Hoyer is an anglicized form of the fairly common Danish surname "Høyer". He graduated from Suitland High School in Suitland, Maryland. In 1963, he graduated magna cum laude from ...
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says Congress isn't broken, but one branch of it is: the Senate.
On MSNBC this morning, the Maryland Democrat defended the House, saying that it "had one of the most productive sessions, frankly, in recent times last year." Hoyer went on to tell MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd: "And in fact, the Congress was productive in some respects because the president signed into law some very significant pieces of legislation."The Senate, he said, is to blame.
However, I believe the Senate is broken. I don't think it's Harry Reid's fault, the Democratic leader. What I ...
With populist outrage apparently pulsing across the land, many Democrats, including President Obama, have acknowledged a need to focus more directly on reducing unemployment and creating new jobs.But the House majority leader, Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, wanted to drive home the point that Democrats have taken numerous successful steps to create or save jobs, including the big stimulus package last year.Mr. Hoyer, at a weekly news conference, distributed a chart showing that the nation lost an average of more than 670,000 jobs a month in the last three months of the ...
