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" The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore. "
Steve Scalise
Ignore
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Will
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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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" We want President Trump to have all the tools he needs to build the wall. "
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" We shouldn't be bailing out insurance companies under ObamaCare. "
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" 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. "
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" I had miracles. I had angels. "
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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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" 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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Most
" Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending. "
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Economy
Budget
Growth
" We're going to try to solve problems for everyday people. "
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Problems
Everyday
People
" There's no excuse for breaking the law. "
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Breaking
No Excuse
Excuse
" We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border. "
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People
Here
Coming
" 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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Time
Weird
Pain
" When building a strong team, you need a strong leader. "
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You
Team
Strong
" I'm prepared to continue doing what we need to do to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. "
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Need
Prepared
Doing
" We want to say nobody should lose their health care. "
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Health
Want
Say
" 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
" 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. "
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Build
Create
You
" 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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Russia
Just
Hacking
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Game
Health
Talk
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Care
Want
Government
" 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
" I am strongly opposed to any form of amnesty, including, especially, executive amnesty. "
Steve Scalise
Am
Including
I Am
" The idea of strengthening health savings accounts... that bolsters the marketplace. "
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Idea
Savings
Health
" 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
" 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. "
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American
People
American Dream
" You can't say it's broken, but let's keep some of Obamacare. You have to start over. "
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Keep
Broken
You
" Over the years, CBO has been all over the board on healthcare. The only consistent point is they've missed the mark on different pieces. That's the nature of a scorekeeper. "
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Years
Healthcare
Missed
" 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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Line
Doing
Health
" I think it's encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again. "
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Talking
President
He
" I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first. "
Steve Scalise
Border
Play
Rules