David Schweikert

Look, we have a country where we are borrowing, what, $48,000 every second.

Tonight, we are going to try to do sort of the continuation on the theme, but we are going to actually end it up with a dozen or so solutions. I know the Parliamentarian said I can't hold my 8-month-old, but I wanted to prove the…

I have done this chart. There is an update on this chart coming in a couple of weeks, and I am told it is going to look substantially uglier. But this is the reality. Remember, this chart was built 2 years ago. Every dime of the $114…

When I first got here, there was sort of a joke that there were two ways to get in trouble around here. One was to say something stupid, and one was to tell everyone the truth they don't want to hear. I am going to see if I can get myself…

Help us understand the mechanisms in the fraud.

I never want this to happen again.

I represent a community with the highest inflation in America.

When your salary doesn't go up as fast as your inflation, you are poorer the next day.

I hope that my friend from Georgia is enjoying the experience. In the old days when you were bad, we used to put you in the chair to have to cover Special Orders. Would you believe I had to cover a lot of Special Orders as a freshman? We…

Pro-tem, we are going to do a couple things tonight, but first, just every once in a while, when we get behind these mics, and you have got to get something sort of off your chest because it really annoys you. If I see one more headline…

I don't know if I can top my friend from California's great white shark attack or talking about airline delays, but we are going to do something that is particularly amusing and fun. We are going to talk about why the fiscal house of the…

I am going to finish this up in 6 minutes and yield back to you. I need us all to come back and think creatively. If I came to my brothers and sister here who are elected, our staff who are all freaky smart--a lot of them…

We are going to continue sort of a theme that we have been working on, and it is fairly simple, yet the solutions are really complex. First is trying to get a reality on what is going on with the math. I am a broken record. I absolutely…

No, no, no. This is one, it is a little more ethereal, but it is in the field. It is being tested right now. I am not going to do the whole thing about a C4 plant and a C3 plant. Remember your high school biology class. But what would…

But you think about this; if I really cared about that community--and you see where this ties in, this is back to that unified theory. I believe much of my healthcare I can use technology, but I need access to the broadband. But I am going…

When I had my midlife crisis, I didn't want a new wife or a Porsche, I just wanted a long-bed pickup truck; and mine is 10 years old.

How many times--and you have some of this in your district--will we get the lobbyists and the folks come in--and this has been going on for 30 years, so this is sort of one of the running joke scams around here. We need money for rural…

You got to admit, a lot of people love Representative Keller. It has been fun, actually, watching them come up to the microphone and say actually sweet things about him. But the best thing is his granddaughter, my little girl just loves…

Excellent. Thank you, Madam Speaker. This is part of what we are talking about: Legalize the technology that will make our lives easier, better, faster, raise accessibility, and, yes, it is going to cause a disruption. If you are an…

Forgive me as I get myself somewhat organized as is the chaos when you use lots of boards. Madam Speaker, we are going to sort of do something in sort of a continuation on a theme. A couple weeks ago, I was behind the microphones here, and…

Ron is one of the good guys. For those of us who are blessed to be on the Ways and Means Committee, many times it is one of those committees where you have to do adult stuff that affects not only this country but the world. Having people…

I'm going to do my best not to sound frustrated and defeated. I actually do believe there is hope. But somewhere here--and I'm going to show the numbers--we have got to figure out some way, particularly my brothers and sisters on the left…

I will do my very best not to use up that time. I am not even sure I should do this one to all of you. We will come back to that previous one and see if we can make it make more sense. Let's see. The left has been in control here for, what…

Forgive my getting organized. The floor has been moving a little faster than we expected. Mr. Speaker, I am going to try a couple of things and try not to bore everyone out of their minds over the next hour. Some of what I am going to…

This is one of those--you have already touched on C.T.'s resume. But I get to do something that is a little unique right now. I am not going to give his resume again. He was my neighbor. He and Mary were my friends. Have you ever had…