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1. 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.
2. As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer’s.
3. The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.
4. Having more customers means nothing if America’s small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.
5. 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.
6. We can create more affordable coverage options for all Americans and help patients with pre-existing conditions — without forcing any satisfied Americans to lose coverage they like — through high-risk pools and reinsurance options.
7. This federal welfare system is large, fragmented, and growing in cost. This system may have started out with good intentions, but it has become a confusing maze of programs that are overlapping, duplicative, poorly coordinated and difficult to administer.
8. 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.
9. I’ve supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
10. Health reform should be open and transparent.
11. Trade transcends party lines here in Washington, and it unifies stakeholders across the globe.
12. Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. The United States cannot achieve significant economic growth without expanding exports.
16. Having access to affordable, available health care is not a Republican or Democrat issue.
17. I love nothing more than a challenge.
18. 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.
19. Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.
20. 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.