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I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.

When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.

Steve Scalise

For all the banging from the Left that, you know, 'They don't care about people with pre-existing conditions' - There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold.

Steve Scalise

There was a very strong bipartisan coalition in Congress under President Bill Clinton that passed the Defense of Marriage Act. And you've had a majority of the states in this country that have strongly stated that marriage ought to be remain the union between one man and one woman.

Steve Scalise

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

Steve Scalise

I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.

Steve Scalise

I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.

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The bottom line is, what are we doing to Obamacare? We eviscerate the law in our bill, and then we do things like expanding health savings accounts, which give families real flexibility. We reform Medicaid.

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No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

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In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

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The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.

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I think it's a shame that the day somebody hears about a shooting, the first thing they think about is, 'How can I go promote my gun control agenda?' as opposed to saying, 'How do I go pray and help the families that are suffering?'

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A national carbon tax would devastate an already struggling American economy, force the cost of gas at the pump to jump even higher, and kill millions more jobs here at home.

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You look at Rand Paul's bill. He's got refundable tax credits. So many other bills that are out there have had this. Dr. Tom Price, who is secretary of HHS under President Trump, he had an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill that had tax credits.

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How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?

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The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories written about me or stories that were written that were trying to imply or infer things that weren't true.

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You gotta get into some confrontations sometimes to get the right result on the floor, but I think the bulk of our membership wants us to work out problems before a bill comes to the floor.

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House Republicans are the most powerful force for limited government, strong national defense, and economic opportunity that exists in America today. But it is not enough to just talk about conservative values.

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We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.

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I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.

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You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

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Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He's got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he's got all the answers.

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Especially in the whip operation, you're in constant contact with the members and their chiefs of staff, so having a chief who's approachable and reaches out to other chiefs so people know what's going - know what they're looking for in the policy that comes to the House floor - is incredibly important.

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There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support - Tea Party and every group within the Republican conference - but even Democrats.

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We can pass conservative policy that unites us.

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The only thing that gets reported are the tragedies. But it rarely gets reported when somebody actually uses their Second Amendment right with a gun to protect themselves against a criminal.

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Obviously, you cannot do full repeal of Obamacare without a 60-vote bill in the Senate, but you can surely gut the law and give people true healthcare freedom with 51 votes in the Senate.

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If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible your job is and how horrible your employer is, after a while, they're going to start believing you. And then at some point, they're going to start questioning you and say, 'Why, if it's so bad, are you doing it?'

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I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country.

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Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way.

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There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.

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I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country.

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We need to pass conservative policy. And we can only advance our values when we are united.

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So let's find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare's answer was, 'Just make everybody pay more'.

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You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights.

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Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

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Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

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