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Steny Hamilton Hoyer (born June 14, 1939)is the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district, serving since 1981. The district includes a large swath of rural and suburban territory southeast of Washington, D.C.. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was first elected in 1980 and served as the House Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011. He had previously served as House Minority Whip from 2003 to 2007, and was reelected to that post in 2011. These positions make him the second-ranking figure in the House Democratic Leadership hierarchy.
Early life
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 ...
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer is reaching out directly to Speaker John Boehner on the debt limit, a sign that the No. 2 Democrat is trying to become a deal maker on a vote that threatens to become the Armageddon of spending fights.
Hoyer’s maneuvering is the latest sign that he’s trying to carve out his own power position in the GOP-dominated House and emerge from Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s long shadow.
In a letter Tuesday, Hoyer urged the speaker to find a bipartisan solution to approve an increase in the borrowing authority for the federal government, and he held ...
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 ...
Hoyer Discusses the Need to Stop the Sequester on Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto"
For Immediate Release:
March 7, 2013 |
Hoyer Statement on Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act
For Immediate Release:
March 7, 2013 |
Hoyer Op-ed: Sequestration Demands a Better Answer
For more than 30 years, I’ve been proud to represent my alma mater, the University of Maryland, College Park, and work to help further its mission by promoting quality, affordable education and this university’s world-class research programs. That’s why I was so disappointed that Congress failed to take meaningful action to prevent the arbitrary, and across-the-board spending cuts imposed by sequestration, which could significantly set back these efforts. |
Hoyer Discusses the Need to Stop the Sequester on Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto"
For Immediate Release:
March 7, 2013 |
