House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined over 30 members of the House Energy Action Team to strongly condemn the Biden Administration's 60-day moratorium on issuing oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters. Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.): “President Biden’s decision to halt energy leasing and permits will eliminate good jobs and undermine… Read more »

Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today responded to comments made by Jeff Zients, the coordinator of President Biden’s COVID-19 task force, claiming the vaccine supply is “so much worse” than expected. “Comments made about vaccine supply and distribution by the White House’s coronavirus… Read more »

TOPLINE: President Biden has already moved to undo many of our economic and diplomatic gains from the past four years. Over the next 100 days, House Republicans must work to accelerate the rollout of vaccines developed under Operation Warp Speed, while resisting government overreach in the economy and elsewhere. Americans want normality, not a far-left makeover of the… Read more »

House Energy Action Team co-chairs Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) joined House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) in a joint statement regarding the Biden Administration’s decision to rescind the Keystone XL pipeline permit and rejoin the Paris Agreement on his first day in office: “President Biden’s decision to rescind an… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) today announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2021 Work Plan includes over $130 million in critical funding for infrastructure projects in Louisiana's First Congressional District, including $45.7 million to deepen the Mississippi River to 50 feet. “I applaud the Corps for working with us to include over $130 million for critical… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Congressman Garret Graves (R-La.) announced today that the Morganza-to-the-Gulf Hurricane Protection project will receive $12.46 million in New Start Construction funding from the Corps of Engineers. The funding will increase flood protection and further protect economic activity in South Louisiana. The project became eligible for… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined The Megyn Kelly Show for a conversation on how our country can move forward following the violent riots at the Capitol, and what led our country to this point. Whip Scalise emphasized what leaders from both parties, along with the mainstream media and Big Tech, must consistently do to bring down the national temperature and heal our… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) took to the House Floor today to speak out against an impractical impeachment that hasn't had a single House hearing and won't be taken up in the Senate until after the President's term has expired. The Whip implored his colleagues to not add fuel to the fire of divisiveness in this country with a rushed impeachment, and urged Republicans and… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal denouncing last week's violence at the Capitol and drawing on his experience from the baseball shooting to lay out what leaders from both parties must do to bring the national temperature down. Scalise stressed that "Republicans and Democrats alike must have the moral clarity to call [violent rhetoric]… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement ahead of this week's votes in the House of Representatives: “Like many Americans, I am deeply upset and outraged over the domestic terrorism we witnessed last week in our nation’s Capitol. It is clear that tensions in our country are dangerously high. It is incumbent upon leaders to be focused, first… Read more »