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May 24, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) announced that the House of Representatives today passed the Fiscal Year 2007 Energy and Water Appropriations bill which included, at the request of Congressman Hoyer, $400,000 to help clean up the Anacostia River.________________________________________________________________________
Issues:
Environment
May 24, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) announced that the House of Representatives today passed the Fiscal Year 2007 Energy and Water Appropriations bill which included $2 million for the Oyster Recovery Project, which is coordinating the revival of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay. This is in addition to the more than $25 million in federal funding Hoyer has secured for the project to date.________________________________________________________________________
Issues:
Environment
May 19, 2006
After years of waiting for funding for the project, work began last week to deepen the channels of St. Jerome Creek in Ridge, as a crew of 20 men from North Carolina have been working there day and night.________________________________________________________________________
Issues:
Environment
May 17, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC- Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) today attended a reception on Capitol Hill to honor the recipients of the Milken Education Award, including two from Maryland.________________________________________________________________________
Issues:
Education
May 16, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC- Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement in response to the announced retirement of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick as Archbishop of the Washington Archdiocese:________________________________________________________________________
Issues:
Jobs & the Economy
May 16, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC- Congressman Steny H. Hoyer, a co-sponsor of H. Res. 788, which supports the goals and ideals of Peace Officers Memorial Day, released the following statement today in recognition of National Police Week, observed May 15-19. 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.________________________________________________________________________
May 15, 2006
ANNAPOLIS, MD Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) today visited the Harbour School in Annapolis to learn about the facilitys programs and discuss some of the challenges facing special needs education.Harbour is one of the few regional schools that has a comprehensive program to provide direct educational services to children with autism.________________________________________________________________________
Issues:
Education
May 14, 2006
On Monday, I hosted a town hall meeting in Waldorf to discuss the looming prescription drug deadline. My Democratic colleagues and I have requested that the Bush Administration extend the penalty-free enrollment deadline for the new Medicare prescription drug law from tomorrow to January 1, 2007, so that seniors can have more time to navigate this confusing and complicated law.________________________________________________________________________
May 12, 2006
Senior citizens have less than one week to enroll in a highly scrutinized federal prescription drug program before incurring lifetime penalties that would likely hurt those it aims to help.________________________________________________________________________
Issues:
Health Care & Seniors