Steve Scalise Quotes

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Steve Scalise

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 6, 1965

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

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While we always strive to reach 218 with Republican votes, sometimes that is not possible with divided government, and the story of a bill that passed with 150 Republican votes is much more positive and assertive than the story of a bill that passes with 79 Republican votes.

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Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?

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Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

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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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We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.

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It shouldn't just be Russia we're concerned about, because many countries that are not our friends have been hacking into American accounts across the board.

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We want to say nobody should lose their health care.

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I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

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I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.

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We shouldn't be bailing out insurance companies under ObamaCare.

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Many people who have insurance can't even use it because they have $10,000 or higher deductibles. This is something families are facing all across the nation. They've asked for relief; this was front and center on President Trump's agenda and our agenda in Congress, and we're moving forward on it.

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Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.

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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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I think it's encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again.

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We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world.

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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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I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year.

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Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.

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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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