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On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) stated that while we should pass legislation on the border, no one has been able to do anything about it since 2013, but “Ukraine needs resources now, not tomorrow, not the next day, but right now.”

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was behind the decision to kick Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer out of their Capitol hideaway offices, one of which the ousted speaker intends to move into, according to a report. Just hours after Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) was named House speaker pro tempore following the historic vote to strip McCarthy (R-Calif.) of his speakership Tuesday, an email went out to Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Hoyer (D-Md.) notifying them to vacate their unofficial office spaces near the House floor.

Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is the “most effective” leader he has ever worked with. Anchor Dana Bash said, “You go back a long way with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. You were interns together in the office of Daniel Brewster in the 1960s." Hoyer said, “I think that story doesn’t get enough play. Nancy was sitting in the front office as a receptionist, and I was sitting right behind her in sort of a little divided half wall handling academy appointments, opening mail, doing things that interns do,...

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Tuesday hailed House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) in a rare show of bipartisan support for a congressional member on the other side of the political aisle. Blunt praised Hoyer following a Washington Post editorial about Hoyer deciding to step down from Democratic leadership in the House. “An editorial in today’s Washington Post referred to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer as a ‘beloved, admired giant on Capitol Hill.’ I couldn’t agree more,” Blunt said. “During the almost 10 years we served together as the Republican and Democratic Whips in the House, we often didn’t vote...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn (S.C.) announced Thursday they will remain in Congress next year but won’t seek a leadership position, joining Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) who had announced the same decision moments before. The surprise development clears the way for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), the current chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, to jump several rungs up the leadership ladder to replace Pelosi in the next Congress, when Republicans will take control of the lower chamber.

House Democrats could vote as soon as this week on a pruned-down package of police and community safety bills, according to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who said the negotiators are close to the deal that’s eluded them for months. While the talks are continuing on Tuesday, Hoyer said party leaders are “hopeful that those discussions will prove fruitful in the near-term — meaning the next 24 hours.”

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) stated that the Inflation Reduction Act will help deal with inflation right now by reducing healthcare costs, but the Federal Reserve “making judgments on interest rates…is really how you deal with inflation.”

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md) rejected suggestions that would make schools "harder targets" by training and arming some of the staff could be a sensible solution for deterring or countering massacres of students. "I'm surprised my Republican colleagues find the idea of arming teachers an appealing option," Hoyer said. "Isn't it teachers who are ramming critical race theory down the throats of the students? Isn't it teachers who are grooming kids to become homosexuals and transgenders? Isn't it teachers who are having sex with students? Why would Republicans want to arm such people?" Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called the...

On Wednesday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) pushed back against the notion that arming teachers would help prevent future mass school shootings. “CNN Newsroom” host Jim Sciutto asked Hoyer about the value of the House passing symbolic gun legislation, knowing there would not be enough support in the Senate to get it passed into law.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) wrote to House sergeant-at-arms William Walker on Wednesday about how to improve safety at the Capitol building, citing Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s (R-N.C.) recent incident at a North Carolina airport. Hoyer, who has written several letters to Walker, asked the House sergeant-at-arms about his thoughts on improving Capitol security and if the Capitol Complex should be a gun-free zone apart from law enforcement.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Monday that Democratic leaders could stage a vote within days on legislation to ban oil imports from Russia, whose invasion of Ukraine has sparked a global backlash. "I think we could see it on the floor this week," he told reporters in the Capitol.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) disclosed Tuesday that he tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the latest member of Congress to contract the virus despite being vaccinated. Hoyer, the second-ranking House Democrat, said in a statement that he is experiencing mild symptoms. He added that he will work and cast votes remotely while the House is in session this week.

Democrat Leader Steny Hoyer says President Biden is correct that the midterm elections will be illegitimate if Congress doesn't pass Democrats' election takeover bills. (Video at link)

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was criticized for appearing to back President Biden’s claim that November’s midterm elections could be illegitimate if Congress doesn’t pass the Democrat-led federal election overhaul that stalled in the Senate earlier this month.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) in a letter on Tuesday is calling for an update on a review of policies regarding guns on Capitol grounds. "The presence of deadly firearms only raises the dangers of a violent incident, an accidental discharge, or some other preventable tragedy," Hoyer writes in the letter. "That is why it is essential that rules and regulations regarding where personal firearms may or may not be carried must be communicated clearly to Members." The letter was written to Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Karen Gibson, House Sergeant-at-Arms William Walker, Capitol Architect Brett Blanton and Capitol Police Chief Thomas...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) predicted Tuesday that a long-sought Democratic agreement on President Biden's domestic policy agenda is imminent, saying a deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday afternoon. "The president's working very hard on this, and the Speaker's been working very hard on it," Hoyer said during a press call. "And so there's a lot of work that's been done and I think it could come together relatively quickly in the next few hours." Such a timeline appears highly optimistic — some lawmakers said improbable — given the number of sticking points remaining as Democratic leaders...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Friday affirmed the chamber will vote on the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill on Sept. 27, signaling Democratic leaders are still plowing full speed ahead on their planned timeline even though the larger $3.5 trillion bill to invest in social safety net programs still faces tough hurdles. In a letter to lawmakers previewing this month's legislative session, Hoyer said the House will vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill the last week of September "pursuant to the rule passed in August." Under that agreement between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and a small group of moderates,...

On Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) broke with calls from other Democrats for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas and stated that his version of a cease-fire is “Hamas ought to stop, and if Hamas stops, the Israelis will stop.” And that Israel has “a moral duty to protect their citizens.” Hoyer said that he wants the fighting to stop, but “Hamas does not respond to requests, and they initiated rockets. They’ve been doing rockets on a regular basis, and it would be irrational not to think that the Israelis are not going to respond to...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) criticized Republicans seeking to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as Republican Conference Chair, calling the Wyoming lawmaker both “principled” and devoted to “truth.” “I think Liz Cheney’s greatest offense apparently is she is principled and she believes in the truth,” Hoyer told the Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty on Wednesday.

Following is a letter House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent to Democrats: On this Sunday, as we pray that God will continue to Bless America, I write to inform you of our next actions, which will be made with the great solemnity that this moment requires. I want to call to your immediate attention the action to be taken tomorrow morning, when Majority Leader Hoyer will request Unanimous Consent to bring up the Raskin resolution. This resolution calls on the Vice President to convene and mobilize the Cabinet to activate the 25th Amendment to declare the President incapable of executing the...