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David Schweikert: Yeah. I am not going there. Sorry to the Speaker. We don't mean to be teasing you. Well, actually, we do. We are just…

On the recordFebruary 10, 2016
Yeah. I am not going there. Sorry to the Speaker. We don't mean to be teasing you. Well, actually, we do. We are just afraid of it. But this is really important. So if there is someone out there, whether you are on the right or the left, and you actually care about getting your earned benefits, you need to start demanding your elected officials to take it seriously. Number one is: What are you going to do to get this economy to grow? Because that becomes the most powerful thing to fix these numbers. These numbers are rotten and horrible because now we are projecting long-term GDP around 2.2, 2.5. When you start looking at numbers in there, it doesn't work. The math just doesn't work for us.
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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Feb 10, 2016

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