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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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Sep 15, 2022

There are a lot of different bills the gentleman mentioned. Each one of them, by the way, when you rack them up, adds up to trillions of dollars in new spending. If trillions in Washington spending were going to solve the problem, then we…

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Sep 15, 2022

Obviously, we will be staying in touch on that. Hopefully, Ms. Lofgren will have some conversations with Ms. Granger about details because we haven't seen those yet. We surely would like to be more involved in those discussions.

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Sep 15, 2022

Hopefully, we can start seeing actual language next week so we can either get to a place where we are in agreement or try to resolve those areas of disagreement. As the gentleman was talking about the calendar and other items that may be…

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Sep 15, 2022

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for next week. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), who is my friend and the majority leader of the House.

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Sep 15, 2022

In America. This is all in America. Families that we represent are facing the burden of all of these policies that started in Washington that are ultimately ending up taking money out of their pockets. When you go to the grocery store--if…

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Sep 15, 2022

First, to clarify, it wasn't me who said that the IRS agents, this new army of 87,000 IRS agents, would be going after people to collect $20 billion more in taxes who were making less than $400,000. It was the Congressional Budget Office…

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Sep 15, 2022

If Joe Biden wants to keep producing more energy, we are giving him opportunities, but he says no. He said ``no'' many times, and he campaigned on that. We will continue to push to bring those bills to the floor. We are going to continue…

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Sep 15, 2022

And I won't say the gentleman did, but as the gentleman talked about all this production and drilling that is going on and all this oil that is coming out, it was Joe Biden who said, as a candidate, ``no more drilling on Federal lands. No…

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Sep 15, 2022

As it relates to the continuing resolution that I know the gentleman said may come up, we haven't had any details that have been shown to us on what that might look like in terms of other items in addition to some kind of short-term or…

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Sep 15, 2022

As we are more in the first half of September, obviously, this would all be at the very end of September. Hopefully, we wouldn't wait until the midnight hour. We are all aware of the deadline. Hopefully, we can get something brought…

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Sep 15, 2022

We will continue to be honest with the American people. It was the administration that used the 87,000 number. If that number should be lower, I would love to hear what that number would be.

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Sep 15, 2022

I yield to the gentleman from Maryland. If the gentleman has a number, please tell me because that is what we heard from the administration.

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