Steny Hoyer Quotations

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

What they have proposed will not offset Katrina. It will offset their tax cuts,

very concerned by OPM's announcement tonight of a significant increase in health insurance premium costs.

What the panel seems to offer with one hand, it apparently wants to take away with the other.

I am informed that every member of Congress who is in town has voted.

If a Democratic administration had pursued the fiscal policies and put the nation in the fiscal posture it's now in, the business community would be outraged and on the ramparts. They're getting benefits, but they're also very concerned that if they are perceived to be opposed to the administration's policies, there will be a cost to pay in terms of direct adverse impact on their corporate interests.

There is a direct link between the Democratic party's strong showing on Tuesday and the refusal of moderate and marginal Republicans to put their political necks in the guillotine by voting for this bad budget bill,

I think that gave pause to the moderates in the Congress of the United States, who have shown time after time their opposition to the policies that were being proposed by their leadership.

It does not do what they say it does.

Today, the U.S. Congress declares America's independence from hanging chads, butterfly ballots and a broken outdated election system that nearly provoked a constitutional crisis two years ago.

We don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good. This is a good bill. Is it a perfect bill? Probably not. Do we ever pass a perfect bill? Probably not,

There has been a process going on in Washington for over half a decade of undermining democracy. We see another example of that today.

What the American people saw today during the vote on this energy bill was the continuation of the corrupting of the democratic process,

We are breaking a promise, and that is unfair to the people who fought so long and so hard for this legislation.

Our economy is stagnant; we need to create more jobs and promote economic growth, ... We need to expand access to health care, enact a patients' bill of rights, and adopt a real prescription drug benefit for our seniors.

This bill brings some very significant reforms. It answers many of the questions that were raised by last year's extraordinarily difficult election.

It shows a Republican majority in disarray and bereft of ideas that address the needs of the American people. The American public has expressed its opinion on the failed policies of this administration.

In the last four years, the Republican Party has turned record budget surpluses into the largest budget deficits in American history, deficits as far as the eye can see, ... Democrats believe that it's not only irresponsible -- but it is immoral as well -- to force our children and grandchildren to pay our bills by incurring this debt.

inexplicable and a gross waste of taxpayer dollars.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.