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" I don't have any records from back in 2002, but when people called and asked me to speak to groups, I went and spoke to groups. "
Steve Scalise
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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. "
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" Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours? "
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" The problem is not that there are too many guns. It's that there are people that will go out and break the law, whether it's a gun or some other weapon or a bomb. "
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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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" 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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" When everybody goes into their separate corners, it's just real easy to demonize the other side instead of saying, 'Okay, how can we come together and figure out how to get done what's important for the country?' "
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" I knew I was shot. Didn't know how bad it was. You know, in a weird way, your body kind of goes numb. You know, as bad as the wounds were - and obviously, I know now how severe it was - at the time, I guess my body had been shutting down a lot of the real pain. "
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" 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. "
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