Rep. Scalise Talks Tax Reform, School Safety on The Rush Limbaugh Show
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Key highlights:
On the contrast between
"Frankly, that is the question for this November and I think there could not be a clearer contrast in why we're going to hold the House - which I feel confident we will - than [last week],
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"I think that the big reason we're going to reverse that trend and hold the House is because 'it is the economy, stupid!' And when you look over the years - people had gotten used to eight years where there was less than 2% growth every single quarter. Millions of people just gave up looking for work. Well now we are over 3%, the economy is growing even more, employers are looking to hire good people so we're getting millions of people now out of the unemployment lines and back into the workforce. We're working on welfare reform that will actually help people not only get back in the workforce, but become part of the American dream again where you don't actually have to just live off of government; you can actually go out and earn an honest living and also be able to provide for your family and buy a house and do the things that everybody should have the opportunity to do."
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"[The job numbers] are remarkable numbers and we want to keep that going, and I think you're going to see it continuing to grow as more companies - look at over 400 companies now that we have been tracking that have given pay raises and bonuses to their workers. We actually started tracking this on Majoritywhip.gov/TaxReformWorks and you can go see a list of every company and the good thing is it's growing. More companies are giving benefits to their workers, they're seeing it in their paychecks and that's why I think we're going to hold the House and have strong case to make for why we should stay in charge in the House and the
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"[The Democrats] really have no agenda. They move from issue to issue depending on you know, - back a few months ago we had the Schumer shutdown because they thought shutting the government down and not paying our troops because they wanted people that are here illegally to get the right to vote, they thought that that would be a winning issue for them. And they got creamed with public opinion because people saw that and said, 'how could you possibly say don't pay your troops?' And so we finally won that Schumer shutdown and now they're on to the next thing. And they don't have an agenda, except [last week] they laid out that they would raise your taxes, both individual and corporate if they got back in charge. So, I think everybody knows what's at stake in November."
On government failures in Parkland:
"Frankly in the case of the Parkland shooting we saw breakdowns [in] government. Look, the FBI had this guy's name for months before the shooting where he said - it wasn't just other people - seemed like half the kids in the school knew he was going to be a school shooter. But he himself said he was going to be a professional school shooter. The FBI got that information and for whatever reason they dropped the ball. And you know, look, they're out there running around on all this
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"You know, when I was shot they, the police officers there ran to the fire, as you said, and they both got shot. It was heroic in what they did to save all of us. And so you know, in this case people say, 'what about gun control?' What I say is it was people with guns who saved my life because, you know, whatever weapon the shooter is going to use - it was a rifle in my case, where the gunman had a rifle. You know, the fact that you had people there with guns to confront the shooter is what saved all of us, and so people want to take away the rights of law-abiding citizens before they even find out the facts, and most cases when you see that government failed at the federal and local level, you wonder why more people want to defend themselves...even if you live in a rural area, there might be a 20-minute response time just because you're so far out. People ought to have that right to defend themselves. That is the tenet of the Second Amendment."
On working with
"If you look at all the big things we've done in the House, we passed the repeal and replace of Obamacare working closely with
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"He's doing everything in office he said he would run on, starting with
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