Honorable Steny Hoyer
United States Representative, Maryland, Democrat
Representative Hoyer, of the Fifth District of Maryland, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1981. He served in the Maryland Senate from 1966 to 1978, where he was President from 1975 to 1978. He served as House Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011 and currently serves as the House Minority Whip. The following is from the December 1, 2011, House floor debate on H.R. 3463, to end taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions and terminate the Election Assistance Commission. First of all, we ought to be talking about jobs. The contention that this…
