Washington, Feb. 13 -- Congressman Steny H. Hoyer issued the following press release:
On Thursday, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) received a Lifetime Achievement Award along with former Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) from the Maryland-Bosnia and Herzegovina Exchange Council at their Inaugural International Gala. Below are his remarks as prepared:
"Good evening, I am honored to receive this award with my dear friend Ben Cardin. Serving on the Helsinki Commission was one of the defining chapters of my forty-five years in the House, and my involvement with Bosnia and Herzegovina was one of the defining chapters of my time on the commission.
"I visited what was then Yugoslavia in 1990 before the war. There, one could sense that the country, t...