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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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Jun 26, 2026

Let's clean that up. Let's make it easier to create jobs and grow opportunities for people in this country.

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Jun 26, 2026

You cannot recognize who the Democrats are anymore. This is surely not your father or grandfather's Democrat Party. They've fully embraced socialism.

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Jun 25, 2026

We are not done working and delivering for the American people while the Democrats are fighting to see how far left to the socialist left they can go.

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Jun 25, 2026

You're going to continue to see this drumbeat of Republicans focusing on helping make life more affordable for working families on every front.

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Jun 25, 2026

They've become an unrecognizable party. You cannot recognize who the Democrats are anymore.

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Jun 25, 2026

You know, you could call it the Bolshevik Revolution of 2026, but the Mamdani takeover of the Democrat Party is official now.

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Jun 25, 2026

I first want to express my condolences to Hakeem Jeffries for the devastating defeat that the voters of New York imposed upon him last night in his own backyard in Democrat primaries.

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Jun 21, 2026

Every Democrat walked away from that. They showed you they don't believe in border security.

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Jun 21, 2026

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

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Jun 21, 2026

The American people are not a people that wake up every day wanting to be angry at everybody, wanting to be fueled by hatred.

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Jun 21, 2026

You've seen this growth in antisemitism coming from the left, and it's over and over again. It's not called out enough.

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Jun 21, 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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Jun 21, 2026

It just shows you the hatred that fuels the far left. And I'm talking about the Mamdani wing of the Democrat Party that's taken over.

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Jun 21, 2026

You look at SAVE America [Act], the House sent it multiple times to the Senate. We're trying to fit it in a reconciliation bill, which means they're using the 60-vote argument.

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Jun 21, 2026

There's still many things that we want to do. If you look, there's a major housing bill that we just got an agreement over a few days ago, and this is a bill that will lower housing costs.

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Jun 21, 2026

As the Vice President just said, it's important that you see President Trump working to get a peace deal. This has been the Peace President.

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Jun 19, 2026

If you're represented by a Democrat senator, please call them and say, stop putting our lives at risk.

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Jun 19, 2026

This is a program, FISA, which everybody acknowledges has been used time and again to stop terrorist attacks on our homeland, to stop those attacks.

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Jun 16, 2026

It helps a lot of youth programs here in the District of Columbia, and it's something that Republicans and Democrats come together to do.

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Jun 16, 2026

And I think it's just important to point out, when you look at what's coming up and what's the difference between the two parties, how one party, literally after 100 years of the Chicago Bears playing football in Chicago, they're going to…

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Jun 16, 2026

Anybody who votes no on this bill is voting to undermine America's national security.

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Jun 15, 2026

We secured our border working with President Trump. It was critical, frankly, the biggest issue in the '24 election.

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Jun 14, 2026

The American people are sick and tired of it. And, look, people need a vote this November because that is the kind of methodology and ideology that wants to take back over. We can't let it happen.

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Jun 14, 2026

I'd much rather be where we are than where the Democrats are, frankly, because we're going to keep working on lowering costs, on getting the country back on track, on securing the border.

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