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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

It was voted on on a bipartisan basis and was passed by Congress. Where the debt ceiling is today is ultimately going to be negotiated in the Senate, but it won't be in the bill that was sent over to the Senate on Tuesday. The Senators…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman. I do need to correct the Record because the gentleman implied that the relief packages from 2020 were part of the debt ceiling that is being raised in the current legislation that is moving forward. That…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I will yield, but I first need to point out, because the gentleman did mention, that when we cut taxes, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that cutting taxes reduced revenue to the Treasury. Maybe under a liberal ideology that is the…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I want to remind the gentleman that if you go back, both Republican and Democrat Presidents, whether it was a Republican Congress or a Democrat Congress, you had budget agreements that involved both agreements on spending and…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

Well, we know that next week we anticipate, as the end of the fiscal year comes, that there would be the continuing resolution possibly coming out of the Senate. I know when it came out of the House, it was very clear that the Senate was…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

We all will. On Monday, the schedule shows that the infrastructure bill is supposed to be coming up before the House floor. Is that going to be for debate and consideration, or will there be an actual vote on Monday night on the…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

Does the gentleman know if there is a possibility that the bill before the Budget Committee tomorrow, because they did expedite that hearing--just yesterday, there wasn't supposed to be a Budget Committee on Saturday to take up the…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

--including things like that are in this bill. There is a tax on natural gas, which every family in America that uses natural gas to heat their homes in winter or cool their homes in summer would have to pay. I know that President Biden…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman. Then last week, I think we had about a dozen committees in Congress that took up different parts of that bill. Unfortunately, it seems that the cost keeps going up. Could we get an assurance that before…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman. As it relates to the reconciliation bill that the Budget Committee will be taking up tomorrow, the initial estimates on that bill are that it would, roughly, add up to be about $3.5 trillion in new taxes…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 24, 2021

Well, we will be very involved in that debate as well. As it relates to the next few weeks, there has been some talk that possibly the week of October 4 or beyond may be taken back as district work schedules to come back here. Does the…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-24
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 23, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Tennessee for yielding and especially for his passion, the statements that he just made, and the importance of not only standing up for Israel, which we all need to do, but standing up against…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-23
Troy Carter
@troycarter· Democratic · LA· Sep 23, 2021

Mr. Speaker, there were over a dozen instances in the past 10 years in which members of the Louisiana State Police ignored or concealed evidence of beatings and interfered with efforts to root out misconduct. The videos show extremely…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-23
Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Sep 23, 2021

The bill that the Speaker Pelosi is bringing through this week will not become law. They`re going to have to go back to the drawing board. They might have to go to reconciliation to address the debt ceiling.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Sep 22, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the leadership of my friend. Mr. Speaker, I am running out of time here, but in the very short few seconds I have remaining, I just want to reiterate what all my colleagues shared with such compassion…

Congressional Record · 2021-09-22
Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Sep 22, 2021

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Cline has done that, indeed, and I am grateful for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Cawthorn).

Congressional Record · 2021-09-22
Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Sep 22, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend. Well said. God bless Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am happy to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cline).

Congressional Record · 2021-09-22
Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Sep 22, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership on the issue. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Arrington).

Congressional Record · 2021-09-22