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August 29, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), who is on a trip through the Gulf Coast this week, released the following statement today in observance of the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina:________________________________________________________________________

August 25, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) today released the following statement in response to the Maryland Court of Appeals ruling that early voting in Maryland is unconstitutional.________________________________________________________________________

August 24, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) today announced that the 5th Congressional District received 7 Small Watershed Grants designed to improve water quality and restore habitats within the Chesapeake Bay basin.________________________________________________________________________
Issues: Environment

August 22, 2006
WALDORF, MD Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), along with State Senator Roy Dyson, Delegate Murray Levy, Delegate John Bohanan, and Charles County Commissioner Edith Patterson, today rolled out an additional federal share of funding for Southern Marylands transportation future, including several federal projects already underway, at the Mattawoman-Beantown Park & Ride in Waldorf.________________________________________________________________________

August 21, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement after being briefed by representatives of the Charles County Sheriff's Department about incidents of racist graffiti on Bryans Road:________________________________________________________________________

August 16, 2006
COLLEGE PARK, MD Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) today spoke to members of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) who are employed at the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition about issues of concern to federal workers.________________________________________________________________________

August 16, 2006
BELTSVILLE, MD Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) today dedicated a new 28,100 square foot poultry facility at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC). The new facility will be both a production and hatchery building. It will replace about a dozen old buildings built in the 1930s that are in poor condition and obsolete.________________________________________________________________________
Issues: Environment

August 3, 2006
DEALE, MD Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), Anne Arundel County Executive Janet Owens, and Colonel Peter Mueller of the Army Corps of Engineers-Baltimore District today celebrated the construction of a new jetty along with the raising of the current one at Rockhold Creek in Anne Arundel County.________________________________________________________________________
Issues: Environment

July 28, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) today announced that TRIO Talent Search at the College of Southern Maryland (CSM), a program to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who have the potential to succeed in higher education, received over $295,000 in federal funds.________________________________________________________________________
Issues: Education

July 27, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) today began an effort to put bipartisan pressure on the House Judiciary Committee to take up legislation that would grant the Korean War Veterans Association a Federal charter.________________________________________________________________________