David Schweikert

As a matter of fact, she is third generation adopted now in the family, so obviously we are doing something wrong.

I remember when the gentleman first got here, and we were going over those models. They were like 1.8, 1.9, and that was our future. Let's face it, we have blown that off the rails.

I will have a little bit of a colloquy or a little bit of a conversation with the gentleman. For those of us in Arizona, the gentleman has seen the data that came out about 2 weeks ago that turns out that Arizona is actually having what…

I thank Representative Lesko. I am so used to calling her Debbie, having known each other for so long. What is also amusing here is, the next person I'm going to introduce, I have actually known most of my life, which is sort of…

Americans are counting on us to get this right. They want, need, and deserve nothing else.

It is to that issue. It doesn't rewrite our laws or the Mexican laws or the Canadian laws.

There are many of us on this Committee that are absolutely just fixated on the de minimis value with Mexico and Canada.

Long term, some of us have a fascination of what worldwide trade can do, particularly considering our demographic issues.

The inclusion of a strong ISDS is essential in the NAFTA agreement.

I actually think we are whistling also by the crisis. If I sit here and do math, Medicare Social Security will be adding 130 billion a year in additional entitlement spending.

What would happen if I came to you and said there is a more elegant way to do that?

This legislation, I believe, is Representative McHenry's, so it is already out there.

My assumption is that everyone in this room has been affected by addiction in a family member, a friend, or a neighbor.

So just to sort of put it in perspective--we have a long on-ramp and we need to start getting on that freeway now.

I am hoping, actually, the same movement toward the identifications and technology that can actually deal with what are products...

How do you design at least language that as technology improvements move... there aren't these great gaps?

I embrace that technology.

We may be actually, in our attempt to blind these numbers, creating another cascade effect.

What I see is absurd technologywise.

Maybe I am being pathologically optimistic--and outside, look, some of the political banter that seems to be obligational to throw out, if you actually hear from the right and the left here, I think there is sort of a universal…

There may be a cheaper, better, more elegant way to get these benefits out the door and at the same time deal with the amount of fraud that is still built into the system.

When you use the term 'disruption,' we're one of the epicenters of it.

I guess the theme I was working on in many ways we can build a model that demonstrates that there is a massive, massive misallocation of capital, and it was arrogant of us to somehow think it was going to go where we all wanted it to go.

Can we all have an agreement, though, that expansive monetary policy does enable those of us who are responsible for fiscal policy...

Many of us have sat on the terrorism finance committee, and I appreciate Chairman Hensarling for allowing me to sit there. But the more you learn, the more you understand the levels of complication. We have this habit around here, when we…