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Charles Boustany
American
Politician
Born:
Feb 21
,
1956
America
American
Businesses
Care
Health
People
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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.
Charles Boustany
Good
Welfare
Become
Difficult
Good Intentions
Fragmented
Programs
System
Out
Administer
Cost
Federal
May
Intentions
Maze
Confusing
Poorly
Large
Growing
Coordinated
Started
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.
Charles Boustany
Working Together
Together
Back
Our
Way
Though
More
Allow
Feet
Economy
Make
Democrats
Hire
Expand
Get
American
Again
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
Them
Working
Requires
Help
Businesses
Competitive
Bipartisan
It is an honor to join my former colleague in Congress, Jim McCrery, and the very talented team at Capitol Counsel.
Charles Boustany
Honor
Congress
Jim
Colleague
Join
Counsel
Talented
Very
Former
Capitol
Team
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.
Charles Boustany
Me
Relationship
Working Together
Together
Key
Veterans
Side
Our
Out
Record
Some
Restoring
Had
He
Look
Track
Track Record
Issues
Clinics
Louisiana
Senate
Senator
Where
Interests
Working
Funding
Ports
Assisted
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.
Charles Boustany
Army
Country
Nothing
Enormous
Adds
Complexity
Costs
Federal
Takes
Families
Bureaucrats
Short
Tax
Enforce
Across
Businesses
Code
Washington Democrats see the IRS' overextended resources and automatically think the answer is to take and spend more of your tax dollars. I disagree.
Charles Boustany
Disagree
Think
Resources
Spend
See
More
Take
Democrats
Answer
Dollars
Tax
Automatically
Tax Dollars
IRS
Your
Washington
As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer's.
Charles Boustany
Care
Physician
Hundreds
Long-Term
Alzheimer
Patients
Who
Including
Treated
Needed
Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.
Charles Boustany
Job
Important
Creation
Markets
Job Creation
Abroad
Small
Small Businesses
Through
Opening
Trade
Trade Agreements
American
Manufacturers
Businesses
Agreements
Enhance
Growth
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.
Charles Boustany
Opportunity
Wave
Innovators
Markets
Given
Small
Small Businesses
New
Access
Ready
Foreign
America
Manufacturers
Businesses
Usher
Growth
Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of commerce.
Charles Boustany
Important
Nation
Our
Jobs
Economy
Global
Empowering
Trade
Important Role
Domestic
Commerce
Role
American
Creating
Chain
Growing
Enhancing
Competitiveness
Plays
Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.
Charles Boustany
Strength
Trade
Source
America
Engine
Growth
While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.
Charles Boustany
Work
People
Welfare
Long
Programs
Our
Obama
Promote
Economic
Economic Policies
Failed
Policies
Spur
Mobility
Move
Upward
Upward Mobility
While
Growth
For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.
Charles Boustany
Work
Good
People
Better
Poverty
Support
Policies
Escape
Families
America
Move
Forward
Strengthen
Need
Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.
Charles Boustany
Health
Family
Care
More
Fact
Make
Health Care
Answer
Replacing
Current
Expensive
In Fact
Much
Your
I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.
Charles Boustany
Life
People
Too Many People
Made
Too
Could
Simply
Operated
Healthier
Surgery
Choices
Avoided
Who
Many
Earlier
As a doctor, I saw firsthand the problems many patients face finding a doctor, navigating the system, and paying their health care bills.
Charles Boustany
Health
Doctor
Problems
Care
Face
Saw
System
Finding
Health Care
Firsthand
Patients
Paying
Many
Bills
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.
Charles Boustany
Focus
Important
Before
Think
Statements
Abolish
About
Blanket
Like
Look
Making
Tax
Tax Code
IRS
Century
Should
Code
Start
I love nothing more than a challenge.
Charles Boustany
Love
Challenge
Nothing
More
Than
I want to be influential as a legislator.
Charles Boustany
Legislator
Want
Influential
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.
Charles Boustany
Work
Good
Problems
Country
Before
Congress
Good Ideas
Dig
Broad
Aisle
Willing
Solve
Some
Someone
Finish
Facing
Had
Ideas
Known
Get
Legislator
Want
Really
Across
Who
Serious
Here
Consensus
Career
The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.
Charles Boustany
Benefits
Ownership
Beat
Employee
Robust
Stock
Hard
Plans
Americans deserve the best health care system in the world - one that emphasizes quality but reduces cost so all Americans can participate.
Charles Boustany
Best
Health
Quality
World
Care
All Americans
System
Cost
Participate
Health Care
Health Care System
American
Deserve
Trade transcends party lines here in Washington, and it unifies stakeholders across the globe.
Charles Boustany
Party
Globe
Trade
Lines
Transcends
Stakeholders
Across
Washington
Here
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