My focus has been on what we need to do to take back the House GOP, we need to flip a lot more seats that are currently held by Democrats, switching them to Republican, so we can fire( Speaker Nancy) Pelosi. Steve Scalise More Quotes by Steve Scalise More Quotes From Steve Scalise When building a strong team, you need a strong leader. Steve Scalise you team strong leader We're not going to let some unelected bureaucrats in Washington stop us from moving forward with our agenda, but at the end of the day, CBO is not the Holy Grail. Steve Scalise end-of-the-day end day moving-forward There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, 'Nobody's concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.' We need to restore that. Steve Scalise nobody me american-dream people The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building. Steve Scalise more building responsibility should I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country. Steve Scalise city new country school You look at Rand Paul's bill. He's got refundable tax credits. So many other bills that are out there have had this. Dr. Tom Price, who is secretary of HHS under President Trump, he had an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill that had tax credits. Steve Scalise price look you president Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way. Steve Scalise things you time way You gotta get into some confrontations sometimes to get the right result on the floor, but I think the bulk of our membership wants us to work out problems before a bill comes to the floor. Steve Scalise problems you work sometimes People from all parties should condemn political violence when it happens, and I would encourage President Biden and other Democrat leaders to equally condemn this heinous act. Steve Scalise Democrats’ reckless spending and job-killing policies have put our country into a recession and caused record-high inflation, now they’re doubling down on their failed, radical agenda with this massive spending bill that raises taxes on Americans, hires an army of 87,000 IRS agents, and creates … slush funds for their leftist climate allies at the expense of taxpayers. Steve Scalise This legislation comes to the House precisely as Senate Democrats have allegedly struck a deal on their partisan reconciliation bill, pairing up a tone-deaf agenda that on one hand gives billions away in corporate handouts, and on the other hand undoes historic tax cuts implemented by Republicans. Steve Scalise It’s truly unbelievable how out of touch big-government socialists are with the concerns of hard-working taxpayers who are struggling to feed their families and even be able to afford to drive to work, rather than wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on Hollywood show trials attacking their political opponents, and changing bathroom gender designations in the Capitol, Speaker Pelosi and President Biden should get to work fixing the litany of crises that they alone created. Steve Scalise I haven't seen what they're referring to. But it's not surprising that the liberal media wants to keep talking about January 6, because they don't want to focus on all the crises that President Biden's created from inflation to gas prices to the border. Steve Scalise The challenge is that President Biden still won't say yes to American energy, because to replace that Russian oil is the real critical step. Steve Scalise Speaker Pelosi and President Biden’s radical Green New Deal agenda will be a major issue in November’s elections. Steve Scalise President Biden should immediately reverse his devastating policies that are causing gas prices to skyrocket and are giving Putin leverage against the rest of the world and return to the policies that were working under President Trump to create American energy dominance with gas prices below $2 a gallon, speaker Pelosi and President Biden’s radical Green New Deal agenda will be a major issue in November’s elections. Steve Scalise In fact, President Biden’s own CDC director said the vaccine does not prevent transmission, this is the same administration that allowed union bosses to write their own school reopening guidelines and has created mass confusion with their mixed public health messaging. Steve Scalise The only achievements Democrats will have to show for their year of total government control are record breaking inflation, skyrocketing gas prices, millions of illegal border crossings, crime, COVID outbreaks, and deadly failures on the world stage, it’s been obvious to anyone besides liberals in Washington that the American people do not support President Biden’s radical tax and spend bill that would make the crises we face even worse, and they need to bury their Build Back Broke bill with the ghosts of Christmas past. Steve Scalise Inflation crisis, border crisis, energy crisis, confidence crisis and Joe Biden's policies -- that's what the focus needs to be on, and how we can solve these problems that they've created, everybody's been away for Thanksgiving. And now that we're back, we've got to get back focused on the things that matter to families back home. Steve Scalise President Biden and Democrats have politicized Covid from the start and refused to acknowledge its origins from China, republicans have been sounding the alarm on these issues for well over year, and Dr. Birx’s closed-door testimony confirms that the world was misled. Steve Scalise