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" You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights. "
Steve Scalise
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" Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy. "
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" 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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End
" If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way. "
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Better
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" Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process. "
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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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You
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" My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you. "
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You
Today
Road
" We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy. "
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Plan
Bankruptcy
Medicare
" I had miracles. I had angels. "
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Had
Angels
" People want smart energy policy. "
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People
Policy
" 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. "
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Republican
Group
" We can pass conservative policy that unites us. "
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Us
Unites
" So let's find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare's answer was, 'Just make everybody pay more'. "
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Way
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" 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. "
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Government
Reach
" We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare. "
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Giving
Up
Giving Up
" No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. "
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Tastes
World
Good
" 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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" 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
" Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending. "
Steve Scalise
Economy
Budget
Growth
" 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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Doing
Health
" 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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Doctor
Decisions
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" The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories written about me or stories that were written that were trying to imply or infer things that weren't true. "
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Trying
Hurt
Me
" We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world. "
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Years
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" At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service. "
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Day
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" You can't say it's broken, but let's keep some of Obamacare. You have to start over. "
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Broken
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" There was this mischaracterization that I ran for leadership to be the guy to get conservatives to vote for leadership. I said I would be a conservative voice at the leadership table. "
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" 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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