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David Schweikert

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David Schweikert is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility and economic growth during his tenure in Congress. Schweikert has been involved in various legislative efforts aimed at reducing the national debt and promoting job creation in Arizona. He has also served on several committees, contributing to discussions on budgetary matters and financial services.

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Apr 26, 2023

I was underwhelmed with the vision on your migration plan.

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Apr 26, 2023

I think it is insane you maintain your own servers when you have substantial portions of the Department of Defense on highly-encrypted cloud servers.

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Apr 26, 2023

It is absurd that you still have that server farm in West Virginia.

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Apr 26, 2023

Not everyone wants to engage in the IRS in the same way, and not everyone has the means or the position to do so.

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Apr 26, 2023

I desperately--what can I do, as a Member of Congress on this August committee, to help you do a hell of a lot more of this?

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Apr 25, 2023

We are going to do a couple different things tonight. I am going to spend some time talking about growth. I am one of those who believes growth is moral. If you listen to my brothers and sisters on the left or many of us on the right, we…

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Apr 20, 2023

If the Lord has mercy on us, I won't use all of that time. Federal spending, this is one I have never used on the floor. It has been several years ago that I remember reading--I think it might have been in The Economist magazine. It was…

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Apr 20, 2023

I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan. Mr. Speaker, we are going to actually try something, and these are always those moments where, if you don't like something that is fairly thick--we are going to do lots of demographics. If you don't…

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Apr 18, 2023

Our brothers and sisters on the left promised us, hey, here is what these things are going to cost.

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Apr 18, 2023

We have all these lakes up and through this really rugged mountain territory just outside Phoenix, and we are going to pump water up when power is basically free.

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Mar 29, 2023

This evening, we are going to actually do a handful of things. Some of this is just sort of responding to some of the absurd conversations I have had this week. This is my moment when I apologize to the stenographer and clerk. Much of this…

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Mar 27, 2023

You are the epicenter of what in many ways is the greatest threat to our republic, and that is our debt.

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Mar 27, 2023

Because it is not partisan. It is not Republican/Democrat. It is moral.

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Mar 27, 2023

The President's budget has new taxes in there for shoring up part of Medicare Part A.

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Mar 27, 2023

But I also am constantly frustrated that we do not take your agency dramatically more seriously.

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Mar 27, 2023

But what I beg of you is in your opening statement you said wellness care, but you did not say we need to fix nutrition support.

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Mar 23, 2023

At some point we have some bad actors who may not join that consensus.

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Mar 23, 2023

Dispute settlement has evolved into an avenue for judicial rulemaking.

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Mar 23, 2023

We are going to go after a handful of things, but we are actually going to try something that is somewhat unique for this body. We are actually going to use math. We are going to use facts. We are actually going to get to the way the…

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Mar 23, 2023

Please let us know what we can do to be of help, but to move it along. At some point, the calcification of this discussion is getting tiresome.

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Mar 9, 2023

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For everyone who has been willing to give me part of their time, I am just trying to make a couple simple points. We have a fiscal responsibility and blame for inflation. We could do policies on pieces of…

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Mar 9, 2023

Should we actually do an adjustment for inflation on those capital gains taxes?

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Mar 9, 2023

In the budget, Madam Secretary, you have a little bit less than $5 trillion of new taxes over the 10 years.

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Mar 9, 2023

Just getting ourselves set up. I was going to yield some time to a fellow Member for a moment, but I think that Member has disappeared. We are going to try something tonight. And for anyone watching and listening, if you don't like lots of…

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Mar 6, 2023

Young males are dramatically underperforming showing up in the economy.

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