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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. "
Steve Scalise
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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. "
Steve Scalise
Think
People
Fault
" We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way. "
Steve Scalise
Prioritize
Responsible
Disasters
" The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore. "
Steve Scalise
Ignore
President
Will
" Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy. "
Steve Scalise
Mistake
Right
Democracy
" You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights. "
Steve Scalise
You
Two
Three
" When you elected me to serve as your Whip, I committed to create an inclusive and open Whip operation - one that didn't just register your objections and move on, but instead actively sought you out and worked to build coalitions that enabled us to advance our agenda on some of the most controversial issues we have faced. "
Steve Scalise
Build
Create
You
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Positive
Government
Reach
" As both Republican Study Committee Chairman and Majority Whip, I've made it a top priority to bring openness and inclusiveness into the legislative process so we can bring our dynamic conference together as we advance our agenda. "
Steve Scalise
Republican
Together
Study
" We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy. "
Steve Scalise
Plan
Bankruptcy
Medicare
" I've been very proud of a lot of the work I've done in New Orleans. "
Steve Scalise
New Orleans
Work
Done
" Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net. "
Steve Scalise
Support
Country
Most
" 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?' "
Steve Scalise
Saying
Suffering
Think
" My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you. "
Steve Scalise
You
Today
Road
" In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity. "
Steve Scalise
Face
Nation
Evil
" At the end of the day, I'm really proud of the work I did to help kids get an equal opportunity, and a lot of them have. "
Steve Scalise
Help
End
Work
" Dr. King challenged our country to fulfill the promises of liberty, equality, and justice prescribed in the founding of our great nation. Leading by example, he stressed the teachings of tolerance, service, and love, regardless of race, color, or creed. "
Steve Scalise
Love
Service
Great
" Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got poorer, and the middle class got wiped out. That's really what Trump appealed to and inspired in the forgotten man. "
Steve Scalise
Rich
Say
Rhetoric
" We want to build a wall. "
Steve Scalise
Wall
Want
Build
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Just
Real
Back
" There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, 'Nobody's concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.' We need to restore that. "
Steve Scalise
American
People
American Dream
" How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things? "
Steve Scalise
Medicaid
Things
Smarter
" You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions. "
Steve Scalise
Want
Actions
You
" We want to say nobody should lose their health care. "
Steve Scalise
Health
Want
Say
" We're not going to let some unelected bureaucrats in Washington stop us from moving forward with our agenda, but at the end of the day, CBO is not the Holy Grail. "
Steve Scalise
Stop
Day
End
" I fought really hard to win a seat in Congress, and everybody else did, too. "
Steve Scalise
Win
Seat
Hard
" There's no excuse for breaking the law. "
Steve Scalise
Breaking
No Excuse
Excuse
" My goal is to get leadership to bring more conservative policies to the floor; it's not the other way around to get conservatives to vote for something they don't like. It's to get a more conservative product, and we've actually delivered on a number of occasions there. "
Steve Scalise
Goal
Leadership
Vote
" We can pass conservative policy that unites us. "
Steve Scalise
Conservative
Us
Unites
" Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written. "
Steve Scalise
Bible
Constitution
Important
" Our argument is everybody ought to be paying lower rates, and we ought to be focused on growing the economy and rebuilding the middle class. "
Steve Scalise
Our
Class
Growing