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David Schweikert: This is something we try to do every couple of weeks is come here and actually, typically, our opening board here is we…

On the recordNovember 14, 2019
This is something we try to do every couple of weeks is come here and actually, typically, our opening board here is we are talking about what are the headwinds to our society, what are the headwinds to our country, particularly over the next 30 years. The reality of it is--and we will get to that. We have it on some of the boards that come a little bit later. They talk about our economic promises: Social Security, Medicare, certain healthcare entitlements. The fact of the matter is they consume every incremental dollar. We will get to that. But one of the reasons I am actually starting with this board here is, this week, I believe the Democrats actually held what they call a Member Day with the global warming or environmental change committee. Forgive me for getting the name wrong. We weren't able to be there because we had Jay Powell and other people here this week. But we wanted to come here and actually start to share with our brothers and sisters in this body some of the amazing technology that is here that I don't know how to get individuals in this body who care about the environment to start to understand. We are living in the time of miracles. We all saw last week, MIT had a major breakthrough in ambient carbon capture; right? Okay.…
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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Nov 14, 2019

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