Charles Boustany Quotes
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Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.
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Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.
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We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.
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I love nothing more than a challenge.
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If employed by employee stock ownership plan companies, working Americans can spend less time worrying about job security and retirement savings and enjoy a clearer path to prosperity.
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Having more customers means nothing if America's small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.
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I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
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The TPP supports economic growth and job creation in America while expanding access for American goods and services in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Senator Vitter and I had a track record of working together on some key issues, restoring funding for our waterways and ports; he assisted me on the Senate side with the veterans' clinics. We have a working relationship where we look out for the interests of Louisiana.
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The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.
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Clearly, the oil spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their families are suffering, and it's also an economic tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a different type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.
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The United States cannot achieve significant economic growth without expanding exports.
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I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.
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Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.
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America's small businesses and manufacturers are innovators ready to usher in a new wave of growth and opportunity if given access to foreign markets.
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It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws.
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Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.
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We can create more affordable coverage options for all Americans and help patients with pre-existing conditions - without forcing any satisfied Americans to lose coverage they like - through high-risk pools and reinsurance options.
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Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths.
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While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.
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Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.
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I want to be influential as a legislator.
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The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.
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Having access to affordable, available health care is not a Republican or Democrat issue.