Press Releases

Maryland has been leading the nation when it comes to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and I was pleased to join Southern Maryland health care providers today to hear from them about how their efforts are progressing.

Mr. Speaker, I have come to this Floor nearly every week since the sequester took effect in March to highlight its dangerous consequences to our national security, its harmful impact on our economy, and the pain it is causing to the most vulnerable people in our country.

With its passage by the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act takes an important step forward today, bringing protection to millions of children with food allergies and their families.

As I said on this Floor last week, I went to Pax River two weeks ago to meet with many of those preparing to be furloughed. I heard their concerns about the sequester's effect on the missions of our men and women in uniform, whom these fine civilian employees support.

Hello, Im Congressman Steny Hoyer. Many members of our community are now being furloughed as a result of Congresss failure to replace the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts imposed by what we call sequestration.

Beginning this week, hundreds of thousands of civilian defense employees in Maryland and across the country will experience furloughs as a result of Congresss inability to compromise on a balanced, responsible agreement to reduce the deficit. In addition to the non-defense federal employees in Maryland who have already taken furlough days, over 41,000 of our constituents who work at defense installations will begin furloughs this week, and we once again urge the House to take action to replace the sequester in its entirety with a balanced alternative and end these unnecessary furloughs.

Im pleased Greater Baden Medical Services and the Elaine Ellis Center of Health have received this important funding to help Maryland consumers seeking health care insurance understand their new health care options and gain coverage.

Mr. Speaker, beginning this week, literally hundreds of thousands of civilian workers are being furloughed, particularly at the defense installations in Marylands Fifth District, across the state, and around the country. That means, as of Monday, more than 650,000 hardworking, middle-class defense employees are being forced to take a 20% pay cut for the remainder of the fiscal year.