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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
We'll keep sending more and more conservatives to Washington, and we'll eventually get these bills passed. But don't be afraid to pass good, strong, conservative legislation.
Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.
President Obama is more and more beginning to look like the hypocrite-in-chief when it comes to the war on terrorism. All sorts of things that he criticized the president for, he's actually continued and even extended. This drone attack program, he's got it at the highest level ever.
We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.
The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.
The use of threats and intimidation to force energy companies to submit to an extremist agenda may be fitting under a totalitarian regime, but it is never acceptable in the United States.
The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.
By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.
By definition, chaplains minister to the spiritual needs of our men and women in armed services, a vital function that an individual without any inclination toward spirituality would not be able to perform.
ISIS is a battle-hardened, highly trained organization that is well-funded. They're one of the strongest armies in the world for their size.
I think among different members there had been concerns that the RSC had grown so large, and it had many members who really didn't have that conservative voting records, which really is a testimony to what a positive brand conservatism is.
In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.
It's all about secular unionism, the advancement of atheism, which they even tried to create in this law - Democrats did - an atheistic chaplaincy.
Republicans must stop putting tax increases on the fiscal cliff negotiating table and start demanding that Democrats put forth serious proposals to reduce spending.
I want to see the farm piece passed, but the nearly a trillion dollars in SNAP spending for food stamps is way too much.
That's how you win these battles over long periods of time. You continue to fight. You continue to bring it up. You continue to message it to your constituents and to America in general.
It's possible that in the future, women could be drafted not only into the military... but actually drafted into combat. I'm very uncomfortable with that.
One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.
The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.
We have an unprecedented number of primary care doctors who are opting out of Medicare.
As a congressman, why should I be forced to peruse cable stations and blog sites for information on the discussions and then be asked to vote for the deal when I have no input and no time to know even what's in it?
I'm grateful for the many Louisianans who have urged me to challenge Senator Landrieu in 2014.
Class warfare has never created a job.
In the final analysis, I believe that an atheist chaplain would be the last person in the world that we would want a dying soldier who needs that last moment counselling in their life.
I have never believed in the fallacy that the federal government can buy its way out of economic troubles through needless spending. For that reason, I am proud to oppose 'stimulus' packages and endless corporate bailouts, which will do little but weaken the long-term integrity of the American economy.
If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.
I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.
Now that we have the Senate and the House fully controlled by Republicans, we need to be working together.
We all say that we want to repeal Obamacare, and we would all love a clean, full repeal. But the truth is, sometimes it's kind of like making sausage. You have to do it one step at a time. You've got to approach it from the standpoint that you make substantial gains today, and then the next opportunity, you make more.
Most Americans do not support amnesty, especially without securing the borders.
I'm concerned that Speaker Boehner is getting ahead of House Republicans when he commits to getting a 'comprehensive approach' to immigration taken care of 'once and for all.'
The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.
The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently, that's not necessarily the case.
The government has a key role in regulating and making sure there's an even playing field and protecting consumers. No question about it.
People on the Left really want a single-payer system. They really want - so even the Left doesn't want Obamacare. They want single payer, and we want a market-driven, patient-central system.
There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.
Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.
In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.
Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.
The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.
It is foolish for Republicans to continue opening the door to job-killing tax hikes while Democrats refuse to explain how they propose to reform mandatory spending - mostly entitlements - that makes up almost two-thirds of the federal budget.
I see a bright, bright future for the Republican Party and conservatism in general.
I've heard enough of Democrats claiming a balanced approach.
Uninsured care happens in this country, and here's the problem. It's not properly accounted for. The people who pay for uninsured care at the moment are the hospitals and the doctors and all of the medical providers.
We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.
I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.
I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.
The Obama administration would say that if you are a Catholic institution, you can only limit your conscience waivers or exclusions to people of the Catholic Church. That would mean that Catholic institutions couldn't treat people of other religions, and that makes no sense.
Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?
I was elected to represent my district, not to predict the future.
For nearly a century, Republican-controlled Houses held the line on tax rates, a Republican coup de pointe to Democratic tax-increase parries.
They want to wipe - in fact, the Democrat Party in their own platform last year wiped even - any reference to God completely from their platform.
If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.
I'm pro-free enterprise.
We know that terrorism is going to happen in the future, and we need to be prepared for it.
We know that the crime committed by people with guns by criminals, they get the guns by flouting the law to begin with. They don't go to gun shows.
I'm a public servant. And I work for the American people.
The people who come across the border are hard-working family people. They have great values, and that's all well and good but they are also very, very consistent Democrat voters.
Let's be clear: raising taxes during a very slow recovery is likely to lead to another recession, and it will do absolutely nothing to balance the budget.
If members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way.
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