Charles Boustany Quotes
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I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
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I love nothing more than a challenge.
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This federal welfare system is large, fragmented, and growing in cost. This system may have started out with good intentions, but it has become a confusing maze of programs that are overlapping, duplicative, poorly coordinated and difficult to administer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.
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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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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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Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.
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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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Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.
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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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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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The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.
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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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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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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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The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.
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Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.
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I want to be influential as a legislator.