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Steve Scalise

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Steve Scalise is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district since 2008. A member of the Republican Party, Scalise has held significant leadership roles, including serving as the House Majority Whip. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as tax reform, healthcare, and energy policy, advocating for conservative principles in Congress.

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May 27, 2026

Look, if anything else, it shows just how far left the Democrat Party has moved to where they will unite to shut down the Department of Homeland Security.

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May 27, 2026

It's been a very busy week here in Congress with a lot of really important things to do.

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May 27, 2026

It's disgusting. And frankly, you know, when you look at now the third, as you mentioned, assassination attempt on President Trump, we've seen a rise in political violence from the left.

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May 27, 2026

You know, this was an incredibly important piece of legislation to pass, and with a narrow majority – Look, over and over again, the far left loves trying to count out the Republicans in Congress and yet we delivered for Americans, farmers.

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May 27, 2026

You know, you look at no tax on overtime, it's been a tremendous boom to blue-collar workers.

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May 27, 2026

You know, what you’ve seen President Trump and Secretary Hegseth say is that we're going to make sure that they open up the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic.

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May 27, 2026

But the left doesn't care about those families. They just want power, Sean. You saw it during COVID. They lied to you about masks and distancing and shutting down businesses and keeping kids out of school because they want power.

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May 27, 2026

That's exactly right. I mean, the far left has literally taken over the Democrat Party in Washington. This is not your father's Democrat Party. The party's lost their way and they don't care about working people anymore.

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May 27, 2026

When you listen to those words, you know, and at the beginning, you rolled that tape of Governor Pritzker. The saying that we should disagree without being disagreeable. Those platitudes ring hollow when he over and over and over again…

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May 27, 2026

We're going to always back the blue. It's a shame everybody doesn't, but we will.

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May 27, 2026

It takes a special kind of person to answer that call. And thank God they do.

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May 27, 2026

Every week, we pay tribute to our men and women in uniform, our law enforcement officers who keep our community safe.

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May 27, 2026

You saw that vote last week on Law Enforcement Week... it was disgusting to watch.

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May 27, 2026

One of the bills you're going to be able to watch a really interesting vote on tomorrow is the Women's Museum.

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May 27, 2026

The housing bill that we're going to be voting on today is really, really important to lower housing costs for all American families.

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May 27, 2026

The bills, as the Whip mentioned, that we're bringing to the floor... is an embarrassment.

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May 27, 2026

I really want to thank my colleague and dear friend Jake Ellzey for those warm words and really kind of reminding everybody what Memorial Day is really all about.

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May 27, 2026

It's dangerous, you know, because you look— I mean, President Trump has had three — not one, not two— three assassination attempts on his life.

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May 27, 2026

I feel very strongly we're going to hold the House and we can grow the majority.

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May 27, 2026

But at the end of the day, it's going to be a dogfight going into November.

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May 27, 2026

The politics of hatred and division need to fall by the wayside.

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May 27, 2026

You've seen this growth in antisemitism coming from the left, and it's over and over again.

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May 27, 2026

We know for sure that the rhetoric from the left, especially their elected leaders, is driving a lot of the violence that you're seeing.

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Dec 10, 2025

There's still some areas that we don't have full agreement upon, and we're going to keep working on those, and we've committed to work on those early in the next year.

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