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July 31, 2013
This Congress has been the worst Congress for federal employees in which I served. The Gentleman who spoke before me said he ran a business. If you treated your employees as we're treating our employees, they would have all quit.
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Federal Employees
July 30, 2013
For the past forty-eight years, Medicare has enabled Americas seniors to live without the fear of being unable to access or afford quality health care. Democrats have proudly stood up in defense of Medicare and worked to improve it for generations to come.
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Health Care & Seniors
July 29, 2013
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.
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Health Care & Seniors
July 24, 2013
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.
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Federal Employees
July 17, 2013
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.
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Education
July 17, 2013
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.
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Federal Employees
July 17, 2013
Over the coming weeks, students across the country will start preparing for the upcoming school year, looking forward to reuniting with friends, meeting their teachers and tackling new lessons. But for the nearly 6 million children in our country who have food allergies, school can be an unnecessarily frightening place. A tiny amount of an allergen or an innocently swapped snack at lunchtime could become life-threatening with the sudden onset of an anaphylactic reaction. School should be a place where children grow, learn and gain confidence in themselves not worry every day about a potentially deadly allergic reaction.
July 12, 2013
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.
July 12, 2013
Last Tuesday, I had the opportunity to sit down with some of the hard-working civilian defense employees at Patuxent River Naval Air Station to hear firsthand how sequestration and furloughs are affecting them, their families, operations on base and the wider community.
July 11, 2013
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.