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 is the House Majority Leader. The following is from the June 24, 2010, House floor debate on H.R. 5175, the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections [DISCLOSE] Act. For more than a century, America has limited the role of private money in public elections. We’ve done so because we believe that huge sums of money from unknown sources…
