David Schweikert: “we do not spend enough time trying to also come up with a mechanical solution.”

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…

You have to understand. Okay. You are not going to raise taxes. I despise raising taxes.

Mr. Speaker, we are going to try a couple of things tonight, and I am going to try to do this as efficiently as possible. I hate doing it this way, but part of what I am going to do tonight is respond to basically a little bit--actually, a…

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…