Charles Boustany Quotes
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Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.
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I first learned of the value of employee stock ownership plans while representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, home of employee-owned Acadian Ambulance.
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I love nothing more than a challenge.
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I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.
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For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.
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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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Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.
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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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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 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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The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.
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Working together, we can help Americans get back on their feet and make businesses more competitive to allow them to hire and expand again and revitalize our economy. It requires Republicans and Democrats working in a bipartisan way, though.
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The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.
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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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Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.
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I want to be influential as a legislator.