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" People want smart energy policy. "
Steve Scalise
Energy
People
Policy
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" Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive. "
Steve Scalise
Exclusive
Being
Responsible
" The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building. "
Steve Scalise
More
Building
Responsibility
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Line
Doing
Health
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Freedom
You
People
" 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
" Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way. "
Steve Scalise
Big
Big Things
Way
" The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore. "
Steve Scalise
Ignore
President
Will
" There's no excuse for breaking the law. "
Steve Scalise
Breaking
No Excuse
Excuse
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Forward
Moving
Moving Forward
" Under President Obama, the IRS formed a committee to aggressively go after churches and other religious organizations using the Johnson Amendment of 1954 to limit their free speech. "
Steve Scalise
Limit
Speech
Go
" We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way. "
Steve Scalise
Prioritize
Responsible
Disasters
" We're strongest when we're united, and we're united when everyone has an opportunity to contribute their talents and ideas. "
Steve Scalise
Ideas
Opportunity
Talents
" 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
" In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity. "
Steve Scalise
Face
Nation
Evil
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Know
People
Important
" If you're holding a grudge against somebody over the battle you just went through, you might be working with them on the next bill. "
Steve Scalise
Over
You
Working
" 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
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Result
Us
Problems
" I'm very proud of the Italian heritage of my great-grandparents, who came here from Italy, and how they helped be a part of the American Dream, and that's something we want to continue to make available to everybody who wants to come here. "
Steve Scalise
Proud
American Dream
American
" 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
" Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington? "
Steve Scalise
Decisions
Some
Doctor
" I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country. "
Steve Scalise
Us
Want
Border
" As all of us here have known, and as people all throughout the nation are witnessing, Gabby Giffords is a fighter. "
Steve Scalise
Here
Fighter
Us
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Will
People
Law
" There are going to be times when we disagree with our leadership, but ultimately, we've got to work hard to pull our leadership to the right and to move a conservative agenda forward and unite as conservatives if we're going to get things done. "
Steve Scalise
Work Hard
Leadership
Forward
" 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
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
More
Economy
Home
" 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
Spoke
Speak
Records
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Support
Republican
Group
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Opportunity
Today
Powerful