In my view, Obamacare is the most existential threat to our economy than anything we've ever had since the Great Depression, so I think a little bit of additional deficit is nothing compared to delaying if not repealing Obamacare.
— John Fleming
We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.
Most small businesses in this country today are taxed at the individual level as Corporation LLC. So whatever is cut out of those earnings is money taken out of capital for reinvestment for creating more jobs and opening up more locations.
We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.
At any time, somebody can blow themselves up and take Americans with them. They can blow up an airplane; they can crash an airplane. That's something we have to worry about every day - we spend 40 billion dollars yearly on homeland security. That has nothing to do with Crusades or any of that other nonsense.
Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.
The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.
Don't take risk, and don't get into debt.
Washington faces many challenges these days, and today's United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.
We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.
I saw people, and I can't name them of course, that maybe were skeptical at first that were really sold on Donald Trump.
The use of threats and intimidation to force energy companies to submit to an extremist agenda may be fitting under a totalitarian regime, but it is never acceptable in the United States.
Most Americans do not support amnesty, especially without securing the borders.
I've heard enough of Democrats claiming a balanced approach.
The people who come across the border are hard-working family people. They have great values, and that's all well and good but they are also very, very consistent Democrat voters.
Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?
I want to see the farm piece passed, but the nearly a trillion dollars in SNAP spending for food stamps is way too much.
We've got our own power - the power of the purse.
America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.
If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.
It's very clear that Louisiana is gonna be voting for Republicans for statewide elections going forward because that's just where we are as a state.
In terms of Republicans, we have got to get to our cohorts in the Republican Party to get them to understand if we are going to get this country to its traditional values... we're going to have to control our borders and manage this huge change in our culture that's occurring.
We owe our law enforcement officers the highest respect.
Louisiana's a very conservative state. When we've ever polled this, we've found that they like conservative reforms. They want us to fight back against our leadership and Democrats, so it's very consistent.
Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.
We've got to change the way we do things.
We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.
The liberal social experiment with our military continues. A same-sex marriage-like ceremony should not have occurred at Fort Polk, especially since the people of Louisiana have made it abundantly clear that our state does not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions.
I'm grateful for the many Louisianans who have urged me to challenge Senator Landrieu in 2014.
The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.
It is foolish for Republicans to continue opening the door to job-killing tax hikes while Democrats refuse to explain how they propose to reform mandatory spending - mostly entitlements - that makes up almost two-thirds of the federal budget.
We know that terrorism is going to happen in the future, and we need to be prepared for it.
Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.
In the final analysis, I believe that an atheist chaplain would be the last person in the world that we would want a dying soldier who needs that last moment counselling in their life.
The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.
What happens is, in my own case - my own LLCs - the income flows to my personal tax return, whatever is left over after taxes are paid, I feed my family on the one hand, and on the other hand, I reinvest in my business.
There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.
I think that we need, you know, Sen. Vitter is quite conservative, and I think we need to replace a good strong conservative with another conservative.
I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.
While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.
I think always, when you have a candidate promising free stuff, and another promising less stuff or nothing, the one who promises more is always going to have the advantage.
Louisiana wants a leader that will take their values to D.C. and will fight for them without wavering.
We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.
Our constituents rightly hold us accountable for results.
Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.
I see a bright, bright future for the Republican Party and conservatism in general.
There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.
Republicans must stop putting tax increases on the fiscal cliff negotiating table and start demanding that Democrats put forth serious proposals to reduce spending.
For nearly a century, Republican-controlled Houses held the line on tax rates, a Republican coup de pointe to Democratic tax-increase parries.
If members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way.
