David Schweikert: “you would be stunned how much public policy is done by folklore; and I'm heartbroken to find out how often a good story…”

Please, how do I get my brothers and sisters on the left and those on the right to understand we have turned the whole discussion of healthcare into financial engineering? Many of us know ACA as ObamaCare. It is a financing bill. It has…

Our tax collections are up almost 10 percent--almost 10 percent. Tax collections are up in the last 12 months. Yet, over the last 12 months, we have borrowed $2.34 trillion. We are borrowing right now, if you take over the last 12 months…

we are going to actually do something with a little meat on the bones today. I have to walk through the math. Repeatedly, I have come behind this microphone over the last decade, trying to walk through our Joint Economic Committee's, my…

Excellent. If I do this quickly--and I apologize for talking so fast. I have had a lot of coffee today. I am trying to detox. Something almost no one around here pays attention to, but it is my job on Ways and Means and my job with the…