David Schweikert

We’re going to have to deal with the reality of subsidization of everything in the economy is not going to work,

Should we give someone an EBT card to buy onion rings?

We have to explain that prosperity is moral.

As of today, for the last 12 months, so more than just within the fiscal year, the last 12 months--so I pick up the tax cycle, and I pick up everything else--we are borrowing about $87,000 a second, every second of every day. Yet, I will…

I have an absolute fixation, and I have got to thank my Democratic colleague and a number of the team here for tolerating my fixation on the fact that one of the ways you work within the IRS budget to make things more efficient is the…

there is a certain irony to having the message from the Senate come in just as I am about to actually walk through some of the absolutely fraudulent math in their document, but we will get to that. Let's see. I have been in Congress now 16…

wouldn't it be fun if we actually did these sorts of discussions and debates sort of like we do term papers where you actually have to give the footnote of where the numbers come from. That is because I hear numbers from my brothers and…

I have a number of things to go over. Mr. Speaker, do you remember over the last few years the number of discussions we would have at home, saying drain the swamp? What was the term, swamp critters? We have been collecting a number of…

we are going to actually do something with a little meat on the bones today. I have to walk through the math. Repeatedly, I have come behind this microphone over the last decade, trying to walk through our Joint Economic Committee's, my…

Mr. Speaker, guess what. We had sort of a record today for not being in COVID or whatever disasters. Every day, I send out a text message. It is part of our Joint Economic Committee. I have a few thousand people who subscribe to this. Yes…

Yeah. Your life is hell. I do Joint Economic Committee and Ways and Means. That is actually one of the elegance the Founding Fathers gave us is, we eventually end up where we are good. In some ways, I always loved the yin and yang thing…

have you ever had a piece of legislation--we all go through this--where you have your friends on the opposite side who say things, and you think, wow, I can't find that in this piece of legislation. I guess we are all sometimes in the…

90 seconds is the shortest I have ever spoken. Mr. Speaker, if someone is actually listening to our discussion, the Democrats have made it clear: Hey, lots of law enforcement have this product. Wonderful. We are trying to explain that this…

Our tax collections are up almost 10 percent--almost 10 percent. Tax collections are up in the last 12 months. Yet, over the last 12 months, we have borrowed $2.34 trillion. We are borrowing right now, if you take over the last 12 months…

Excellent. If I do this quickly--and I apologize for talking so fast. I have had a lot of coffee today. I am trying to detox. Something almost no one around here pays attention to, but it is my job on Ways and Means and my job with the…

Let's save America. Let's protect our elections. I will give you one last concept, being someone from Arizona. How do you protect a republic if your citizens don't trust the institutions and don't trust elections? So even if you are…

shall we have some fun with math and economics? It is something we just don't hear a lot of here on the floor of the House. Remember, this is my therapy because I often sit in the back of the room and stew when I hear people say things…

I actually think we should first jump into the fact that we work in a math-free zone. If you listen to the people coming behind the microphones, particularly today, it is as if they have read none of the CBO reports, none of the HHS…

I promise you at least this one. I think I have the half an hour. I am going to try not to use all of it, and I will try to slow down some of the speaking. Madam Speaker, I had a couple of odds and ends and then some basic optimism on one…

Please, how do I get my brothers and sisters on the left and those on the right to understand we have turned the whole discussion of healthcare into financial engineering? Many of us know ACA as ObamaCare. It is a financing bill. It has…

Mr. Speaker, we had an incident today where the Budget Committee was inviting Members to come in and sort of give our priorities. My comments to the Budget Committee--I brought them some work that has been done by the Joint Economic…

I have missed all of you. I don't know if you missed me. We are going to actually try something tonight, and some of what we are going to do this evening is a little bit complex. It is going to be a little bit thick, but we have…

Mr. Speaker, first, the good news. If anyone else is a geek out there, there is this app put out by the Atlanta Fed, Atlanta Federal Reserve, and what they do is they do certain samples in trying to constantly estimate what the gross…

I have a challenge for everyone out there who thinks you know things. A little while ago, I was sent--and I hope this is either a bot or just someone who is having a mental health issue, who was putting out horrible, evil comments. You…