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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News’ Fox & Friends to discuss his candidacy for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The full interview can be seen below. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) sent a letter to his colleagues today seeking their support for the House Republican Conference’s nomination for Speaker of the House.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), and Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to highlight the bipartisan passage of a continuing resolution to keep America’s government funded. Leader Scalise emphasized that, as House Republicans fight to rein in out-of-control government spending and secure America’s southern border, the Senate has not taken up a single appropriations bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement today slamming the Biden Administration after the release of the most restrictive Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2024 – 2029 in history:
 
“Today’s announcement is the most restrictive five-year plan in our history. Once again, President Biden has sided with the radical climate mob rather than with hardworking families who are already suffering from sky-high gas prices and his self-created inflation crisis.
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) spoke on the House Floor in support of an amendment to hold the Secretary of the Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, accountable for his abject failure to secure America’s southern border. Leader Scalise slammed Secretary Mayorkas and the Biden Administration for their forfeiture of control over the southern border to drug cartels and human traffickers, effectively turning every American community into a border town.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and Congressman Michael Cloud (R-Texas) to stress the urgency of addressing the issues that matter to American families: securing our border, having a strong national defense, and stopping reckless, wasteful, and unsustainable spending.

JEFFERSON, La. — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement today after a federal judge ordered a halt to a Biden Administration decision to reduce the acreage of Lease Sale 261 and impose additional restrictions on operations as part of a back room deal with radical environment extremists:
 
“I applaud the Court for correctly deciding that the Biden Administration violated the law and circumvented Congress in their latest attempt to shut down energy exploration and production in the Gulf.
 

WASHINGTON—House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) are threatening the compulsory process to obtain compliance with a May 1, 2023, oversight request for documents and information related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). In the new letter to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, the lawmakers emphasized they expect a substantive production of the previously requested information by September 25, 2023.