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.
— Steve Scalise
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.
We want President Trump to have all the tools he needs to build the wall.
I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.
People want the Keystone pipeline built all across the country.
I am strongly opposed to any form of amnesty, including, especially, executive amnesty.
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.
Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.
We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world.
Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.
I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.
A lot of individuals have had their personal information compromised, and then we've seen just about every corporation in this country hacked or attempted to be hacked by foreign countries.
A national carbon tax would devastate an already struggling American economy, force the cost of gas at the pump to jump even higher, and kill millions more jobs here at home.
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.
We're going to try to solve problems for everyday people.
There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.
I've always been a conservative first.
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.
We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.
We're strongest when we're united, and we're united when everyone has an opportunity to contribute their talents and ideas.
As both Republican Study Committee Chairman and Majority Whip, I've made it a top priority to bring openness and inclusiveness into the legislative process so we can bring our dynamic conference together as we advance our agenda.
Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive.
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.
I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country.
I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year.
I think it's encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again.
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.
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.
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.
Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.
We need to pass conservative policy. And we can only advance our values when we are united.
Ultimately, what we want to do is see the president follow the laws.
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.
If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.
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.
We want to build a wall.
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.
People want smart energy policy.
I don't have any records from back in 2002, but when people called and asked me to speak to groups, I went and spoke to groups.
When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.
We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.
How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?
You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights.
We shouldn't be bailing out insurance companies under ObamaCare.
We want to say nobody should lose their health care.
We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?
House Republicans are the most powerful force for limited government, strong national defense, and economic opportunity that exists in America today. But it is not enough to just talk about conservative values.
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.
There are going to be times when we disagree with our leadership, but ultimately, we've got to work hard to pull our leadership to the right and to move a conservative agenda forward and unite as conservatives if we're going to get things done.
