Press Releases
May 25, 2005
Congressman Steny Hoyer, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee and the only member from Maryland, today announced that the House of Representatives passed the Fiscal Year 2006 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill last night which included $15.2 million for Baltimore Harbor maintenance dredging and $13.4 for the Poplar Island Project. At Congressman Hoyers request, the federal funding for the Baltimore Harbor dredging was increased by $200,000 over last years funding.________________________________________________________________________
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Environment
May 25, 2005
House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) made the following statement today after releasing a new report from the Joint Economic Committee with JEC Senior House Democrat Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY) and JEC Ranking Democrat Senator Jack Reed (RI). The report highlights the negative impact that Republican privatization and benefit cut proposals would have on workers aged 40-50.________________________________________________________________________
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Health Care & Seniors
May 25, 2005
Congressman Steny Hoyer announced that the House of Representatives passed the Fiscal Year 2006 Energy and Water funding bill last night which included $1 million for the Oyster Recovery Project, which is coordinating the revival of oysters in the bay. To date, Hoyer has helped obtain more than $25 million in federal funding for the project.________________________________________________________________________
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Environment
May 25, 2005
Find out more information about your benefit and the President's plans to privatize Social Security________________________________________________________________________
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Health Care & Seniors
May 23, 2005
Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement after joining Mayor Mark Frazier and supporters of the Bayside Boys and Girls Club at their Sparkle on the Bay Fundraiser yesterday evening.________________________________________________________________________
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Education
May 20, 2005
Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) joined Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD), Steve Edwards, Executive Director of the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute (MFRI) at the University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland President C.D. Mote, Jr. to announce the award of a $750,000 Assistance to Firefighters Grant that MFRI will use to support the Institutes research and development of new technologies to locate and monitor firefighters at the scene of an emergency to help ensure safer operations on the ground.________________________________________________________________________
May 17, 2005
Congressman Steny Hoyer Co-Chair of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, successfully added an amendment to the 2006 Homeland Security Appropriations bill to provide an additional $50 million in funding to firefighter grant programs $25 million for the Assistance to Firefighter Grant Program and $25 million for the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Firefighter Grant Program.________________________________________________________________________
May 13, 2005
Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who has spent countless hours fighting to protect and preserve Southern Marylands military installations, issued the following statement in response to the release of the Department of Defenses list of recommended U.S. military installations to be realigned or closed.________________________________________________________________________
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Federal Employees
May 12, 2005
Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.________________________________________________________________________
May 12, 2005
Congressman Steny Hoyer released the following statement in recognition of National Police Week, observed May 15-21. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy designated May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the week in which May 15th falls as National Police Week.________________________________________________________________________