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" There's no excuse for breaking the law. "
Steve Scalise
Breaking
No Excuse
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" 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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Healthcare
Missed
" 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. "
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" If you're making enemies along the way, you're going to limit the ability for yourself to be successful in advancing your causes. "
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" We want President Trump to have all the tools he needs to build the wall. "
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" I just know how lucky I am. "
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I Am
Am
" If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way. "
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Agree
Better
Present
" We shouldn't be bailing out insurance companies under ObamaCare. "
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Insurance
Obamacare
Companies
" People want the Keystone pipeline built all across the country. "
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Want
Built
Country
" 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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Create
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" 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. "
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Goal
Leadership
Vote
" 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. "
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Care
Want
Government
" Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington? "
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Decisions
Some
Doctor
" 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
" I had miracles. I had angels. "
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Miracles
Had
Angels
" 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
" I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year. "
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Single
Time
Year
" 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. "
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Freedom
You
People
" For all the banging from the Left that, you know, 'They don't care about people with pre-existing conditions' - There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold. "
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Care
You
Day
" 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. "
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Stop
Day
End
" 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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Together
Saying
Important
" 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. "
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Result
Us
Problems
" You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions. "
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Want
Actions
You
" Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy. "
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Mistake
Right
Democracy
" The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building. "
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Building
Responsibility
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Just
Real
Back
" Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way. "
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Big
Big Things
Way
" 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. "
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Know
People
Important