David Schweikert: “This is one of those moments where, in listening to my friend, Mr. Green, we are friends. We, I think, always voted…”

“This is one of those moments where, in listening to my friend, Mr. Green, we are friends. We, I think, always voted against each other on most everything, but we were always civil to each other. That is sometimes hard to communicate with a lot of our brothers and sisters, our folks at home, that you can sometimes have very contentious issues that we absolutely disagree on, but it doesn't mean that we have to be jerks to each other. We have a family motto--I don't know if it works for someone on the left--``conservative but not a jerk about it.'' And we try very hard. Let's see if we can actually do something that actually is interesting and real on the math. Because our other saying is: It is about the math, and the math always, ultimately, wins. The reason we often start these presentations with this board up is if you look at our future, instead of the chaos that this place seems to be bathing in so far this year, and care about what is happening to the country, care about people like my little 4-year-old daughter, who turned 4 last week, best little girl ever--what is her future going to be like? When you look at the CBO data, there are some really important data points that are not Republican, not Democratic. They are math. In the next 5 years, just the growth of Social Security, Medicare, and healthcare entitlements, just the growth, every 5 years, equals the Defense Department spending.…”