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HEAT Leaders Urge DOI to Expedite Royalty Relief Process

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House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and HEAT Co-Chairs Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) led a joint letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary David Bernhardt requesting DOI to expedite the royalty relief process to protect jobs, keep businesses afloat, and ensure America is still the dominant energy producer once we emerge from…

Scalise Announces $58.3 Million in Fisheries Disaster Assistance Funding for Louisiana

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House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Commerce announced $58.3 million in Fisheries Disaster Assistance Funding for Louisiana to mitigate the damaging impacts of extreme flooding in 2019: “In Louisiana, we are proud to be home to some of the best fisheries in the world. I applaud President Trump and Secretary…

Scalise: Pelosi's Outrageous Power Grab Upends 200 Years of Precedent

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House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's Hannity to discuss Speaker Pelosi's proxy voting scheme that upends over 200 years of precedent with serious constitutional and institutional repercussions. Whip Scalise blasted Speaker Pelosi for exploiting the Coronavirus crisis to ram through a partisan rule change for her own political gain, when the House…

Dems Need to Get Their Priorities Straight

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House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) spoke on the House floor today ahead of the vote on Speaker Pelosi's $3 trillion, 1,800-page liberal wishlist. Whip Scalise highlighted both what is in this atrocious bill — including billions of dollars for taxpayer-funded abortions, stimulus payments to illegal aliens, federalized elections, and billions of dollars to bailout…

Scalise Blasts Dems Proxy Voting Scheme

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Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement upon House passage of the Democrats’ proxy voting scheme: “Democrats have once again used this pandemic as cover for a power grab — this time, ramming through a partisan rule change that upends over 200 years of precedent with serious constitutional and institutional repercussions. Republican leaders…

Scalise: Pelosi Exploiting Crisis for Political Gain

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House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's America's Newsroom to discuss today's show vote in the House of Representatives on Speaker Pelosi's partisan, $3 trillion, liberal wish-list messaging bill that has zero chance of becoming law. Whip Scalise called on Speaker Pelosi to instead focus on holding the Chinese government accountable and safely reopening our…

Scalise: Pelosi's Liberal Wish List Won't Help American Families

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House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino to discuss Speaker Pelosi's 1,800 page, $3 trillion, entirely partisan bill, which is nothing more than a liberal wish list. Whip Scalise blasted Speaker Pelosi for crafting this extremely partisan bill in secret, knowing it has zero chance of becoming law, and will not help America…

Scalise Urges Subcommittee Dems to Return to the Capitol

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 Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise (R-La.) opened the Select Subcommittee's first public hearing by advocating for the subcommittee to return to Washington, D.C. to hold in-person hearings focused on safely getting America back to work and holding China accountable. Whip Scalise dialed into the virtual hearing from…

Select Subcommittee Republicans Demand Safeguards Against Democrat Partisanship

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 Today, Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise (R-La.) sent a letter to the Democrat Chairman of the Select Subcommittee, Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), demanding that the subcommittee adopt procedural safeguards to prevent partisanship, protect the rights of the minority, and ensure maximum transparency, since they…

Democrats Divided on SelectSubcommittee's Harassment of American Companies

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Today, in an embarrassing rebuke of the Democrat majority on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Democrat Reps. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) and Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) joined Republicans on a letter in to register their disapproval of the actions of the Subcommittee Democrats and voice their support for a Pennsylvania steel company’s access to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)…