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Nobody wants to shut down the government.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Shut
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I do not want America to default on its debt.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Debt
Default
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I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
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I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Good Faith
Negotiate
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The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Deficit
Disease
Spending
Symptoms
Symptom
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Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Economic Growth
Tax Reform
Fundamental
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You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Prosperity
Work Your Way
Borrow
Work Way Your
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After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Dodd Frank
Fewer
Banks
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Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.
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Good Competition Better
Prices
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As a matter of principle, Republicans do not believe in federal price controls.
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Republicans
Principle
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Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.
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France
Moving
People
District
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In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.
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Party
Tea
Tea Party
Many Respects
Respects
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Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Flood
Just One
Insurance
No Sense
Provider
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Frankly, I do like the idea that we centralize consumer protection for financial products into one agency.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Agency
Protection
Consumer
Frankly
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I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Conservative
Economics
House
House Of Representatives
Members
Representatives
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We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Bail
Chinese
Greek
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In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Fingers
Insider
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If I live my life thinking that something might not pass the Senate, I would never even get up and bother to go to work.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Bother
Senate
Life Work Thinking
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I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.
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Authority
Corporate
Moral
Moral Authority
Social Welfare
Welfare
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In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Dodd Frank
License
Officials
Many Respects
Respects
Unaccountable
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Dodd-Frank represents the greatest regulatory burden on our economy, more so than all the other Obama-era regulations combined.
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Burden
Dodd Frank
Combined
Regulations
Regulatory
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The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Fate
Small Business
Bureaucrat
Paycheck
Wakes
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The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Grandchildren
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Unfortunately
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What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Able
Entitlement
Entitlement Programs
Generations
Grandparent
Reform
Current
Democrats
Future Generations
Grandparents
Programs
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If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.
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Investment
No Doubt
Pure
Standpoint
Tarp
Approaching
Taxpayer
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Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Economic Growth
Hurt
Direction
Harmful
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I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Dedicated
Mankind
Proposition
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The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.
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Long Term
Bear
Standard
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Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Deals
Members
Millions
Order
Pay
Struggle
Sweetheart
Mortgages
Receive
Struggling
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Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'
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Chairman
Motor
Board
Ford
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We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington greed - the greed for power and control over our lives and our economy.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Greed
Wall Street
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The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey is unlike anything my home state has ever experienced. As long as I live, I'll never forget those images of elderly women waiting in waist-deep water to be rescued.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Destruction
Elderly
Harvey
Home State
Never Forget
Caused
Experienced
Unlike
Hurricane
Images
Rescued
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The bottom line is the best consumer protections are competitive, innovative markets that are transparent. Now, they need to be vigorously policed for force and fraud, but the agencies that do that need to be accountable.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Bottom
Bottom Line
Fraud
Innovative
Transparent
Accountable
Agencies
Consumer
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You talk to any of the job creators, and they'll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is the debt. And so high levels of indebtedness are going to lead to high levels of taxation, which lead to high level of unemployment.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
High Level
Job Creators
Levels
Taxation
Unemployment
Concerns
Creators
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There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Independence
Different Ways
Lending
Reconciliation
Executive
Working People
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From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Opportunity
Government
Crisis
Detroit
Economic Crisis
Excuse
Obamacare
Packages
Stimulus
Americas
Chose
Congressional
Democrats
Enactment
Failed
Expand
Responsibly
Shrink
Takeover
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We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Approval
Flood
Fooled
Immoral
Rescue
Insurance
Responders
Risking
Seal
We Cannot
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Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all the way back to President Coolidge - we have seen paychecks increase, economic growth be ignited, and, actually, more revenues come into the government.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Economic Growth
President Kennedy
Tax Reform
Fundamental
Pro-Growth
Revenues
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You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.
Jeb Hensarling / United States Representative
Economy
Socialism
Decisions
American Experience
Washington
Politicians
Losers
Helps
Picking
Sudden
Winners
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President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill. So he can take Donald Trump's vision, help translate that into actual policy, legislative language, bill text, working through the process so that it ends up back on Donald Trump's desk so that he can sign it into law.
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Law
President
Vision
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