David Schweikert: “Last evening, I had a couple of articles sitting on my desk and had the opportunity to read through them. I was…”

“Last evening, I had a couple of articles sitting on my desk and had the opportunity to read through them. I was somewhat--what's the term--oh, yeah, outraged at some of the comments in there, so that is the reason I am standing here on the floor today. I want to walk through a concept and then try to ferret out why is the agency so terrified of this concept, something very simple. If you are going to make public policy, shouldn't it be based on data that is available to the public? That public data, properly vetted, is used to make public policy, sort of this concept of almost the crowdsourcing of information. So if there is a rule set made by an agency, we can all believe in it. We all know it has been properly looked at. It wasn't produced by a small silo of very smart elitists who may be ideologically set one way or another; but the data, the information that creates the rules that we all live under, belongs to all of us. So how would you feel if you pull up a piece of paper and on that piece of paper is an article about a speech that Administrator McCarthy gave on Monday morning? And I do hope she is misquoted because we have treated her very kindly from the Science Committee and my subcommittee.…”