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" 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

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People

American Dream

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" 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. "

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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. "

" Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions. "

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" We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border. "

" If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them. "

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

" We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy. "

" 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. "

" I've been very proud of a lot of the work I've done in New Orleans. "

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

" 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. "

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