Majority Whip Scalise on The Sean Hannity Show: ‘Failure Is Not an Option’
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Check out the key moments below:
On the unanimous Republican support
"If you look at what we had last week, we had a committee meeting, two committee meetings frankly, with members of all of those conferences-we had
On getting the bill to the end zone:
"Let's use a football analogy. You know, if you're Obamacare, we were pinned up on the one yard line and we had 99 yards to go when we got the House,
On the importance of passing the bill:
"I think failure is not an option and that's why you are seeing a lot of good-faith negotiation, and ultimately we're very close on the final details. But look, everybody's got their own way that they would do it but nobody's got the luxury of just having their own bill. I mean,
On the CBO estimate:
"CBO just confirmed we're cutting over
"Sean I point this out yesterday when I read the report, what's interesting, CBO said 14 million people are going to lose their healthcare benefits and I look at it and realized, that's not-nobody's losing anything there. It's 14 million people, according to their estimate, because we're giving you freedom now. You don't have to be on Obamacare. They're saying 14 million people will choose to get off of Obamacare. Well, that's like saying the government was telling you that you have to buy a car and it has to be a minivan. If you said, 'you know what, I want a pickup truck,' then CBO's saying, 'oh well, you just lost your minivan.' Well, you never wanted it!"
On the conservative wins in the bill:
"I think in the end you'll see [conservatives] support it because it encompasses all of the conservative principles that we've run on in terms of giving people their own choice to buy whatever they want in health care, and lower the cost, lowering the deficit, cutting taxes, all of those things that are in the bill, plus defunding
"At the end of the day, if you campaigned on being for repeal and replace and standing with
"I mean, if you look, this is the accumulation of years of work. A lot of bills that have passed individually, bolstering Health Savings Accounts. Sean, you know that that will help lower costs and give families more control of their health care decision; that's in this bill.
"...in the House we have a strong majority of members that want to do this and we're going to have a majority, 218 that ultimate support the repeal and replace elements that are in this bill and that
"And
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