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GREENBELT, MD Today, Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) welcomed Englands Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, to NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, where the royal couple toured the facility, spoke with crew aboard the International Space Station, and was welcomed with a formal greeting ceremony, among other things.________________________________________________________________________

WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) issued the following statement marking Public Service Recognition Week (May 7 13), the nations annual celebration honoring the work of the more than 20 million federal, state and local government employees throughout the United States.________________________________________________________________________

Congressman Hoyer conducted his very first telephone town hall meeting on Tuesday, May 1, from 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. The town hall was a great success with over 2,000 constituents listening in and asking questions.

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WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) announced today that he will hold a live telephone town hall meeting on Tuesday, May, 1, from 6:00-6:45 p.m. The tele-town hall, which is the first hosted by Rep. Hoyer, is intended to provide an additional forum for 5th district constituents to hear directly from their Congressman and to communicate their thoughts, concerns, and questions about federal issues that are important to them.________________________________________________________________________

WASHINGTON, D.C. On the House floor today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) demanded immediate collective action to end the genocide and urged his colleagues to support a resolution calling on the League of Arab States to acknowledge the genocide in Darfur and to step up efforts to stop it.________________________________________________________________________

WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) today announced that programs and projects important to the environmental and economic health of Maryland and the 5th Congressional District were authorized in the House-passed version of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2007. Each of the programs listed below were included in the bill at Congressman Hoyers request.________________________________________________________________________

WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) encourages high school art students who reside in Marylands 5th Congressional District, which includes Calvert, Charles and St. Marys Counties, and parts of Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties, to participate in the 26th Annual Congressional Arts Competition for a chance to have their artwork displayed in the U.S. Capitol for a year.________________________________________________________________________

Washington, D.C.House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) offered his words of condolences following the deadly shootings today on the Virginia Tech campus.________________________________________________________________________