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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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Small, Through, Abroad, Manufacturers

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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Small, New, Given, Manufacturers

It is an honor to join my former colleague in Congress, Jim McCrery, and the very talented team at Capitol Counsel.

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Congress, Very, Counsel, Jim

Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.

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Insurance, Costs, Increased, Health Care Costs

Health reform should be open and transparent.

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Health, Should, Reform, Health Reform

Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction.

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Right Direction, Needed, Had, Decisions

Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.

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Strength, Growth, Trade, Engine

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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Made, Could, Healthier, Surgery

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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Access, Expanding, Goods, Supports

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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Suffering, Soil, Intentional, Gulf

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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Veterans, Some, Clinics, Restoring

Leaders need to compromise, negotiate with members of both parties and ideologies, and reform health care the right way - by developing a strong plan that encompasses the needs of all Americans.

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Strong, Needs, Negotiate, Right Way

Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.

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Go, Rooms, Patients, Primary

Washington Democrats see the IRS' overextended resources and automatically think the answer is to take and spend more of your tax dollars. I disagree.

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Think, More, Democrats, IRS

Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.

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Think, Making, I Think, IRS

The tax code's complexity adds enormous costs to families and businesses across the country and takes nothing short of an army of federal bureaucrats to enforce.

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Country, Complexity, Costs, Enforce

Having more customers means nothing if America's small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.

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Small, Obtain, Means, Businesses

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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Feet, Hire, Allow, Businesses

American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.

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Small, Government Spending, Businesses

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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Through, Engagement, Plays, International

The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That work requirement led to record increases in employment and earnings and a record decrease in poverty and welfare dependence after it was enacted.

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Training, Benefits, Led, Dependence

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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Internal, All Americans, Respects

Trade transcends party lines here in Washington, and it unifies stakeholders across the globe.

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Trade, Here, Across, Stakeholders

Working together in a bipartisan way, we can truly lower the cost of health care while improving quality for the American people.

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Health, Cost, Lower, Working Together

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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Worrying, About, Less Time, Savings

Having witnessed the success of Acadian Ambulance firsthand over the years, I became a champion for the employee stock ownership plan business model. This was easy to do based on the evidence that employee stock ownership plans are reliable, high-performing sources of retirement security.

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Evidence, Became, Sources, Champion

I want to be influential as a legislator.

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Want, Influential, Legislator

I want to dig in before I finish with a career here in Congress - be known as someone who was a really serious legislator, who had really good ideas and was willing to work across the aisle to get broad consensus to solve some of these problems the country is facing.

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Country, Here, Some, Legislator

For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.

- Charles Boustany

Work, Need, Move, Escape

As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer's.

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Alzheimer, Needed, Treated, Physician

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