David Schweikert

2 minutes is almost impossible to actually have an honest and detailed debate/discussion in here. But do understand--and I believe this is a sin of both sides--we are playing this game where we are moving around who pays. We are doing…

How many of us have had the phone calls over the last couple of weeks where we are talking to that small businessperson, and you can almost hear the tears on the other side of the call? You can hear the stress, almost panic that they are…

Think of this: Doesn't it feel like it was just yesterday the Federal Reserve Chairman was telling us we were in the Goldilocks economy? The wage growth for the working poor was the best in modern economic times. I will argue we need to…

We try to come here every week to do sort of a combination of economic reports and what we believe is a solution to long-term debt. Often, we sort of get a little, shall we say, technical, if not a bit geeky. But, tonight, I am going to…

Various Comments on Resolution Copper's DEIS--United Steelworkers Union, Yavapai Apache Nation, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Hon. Dennis DeConcini, Rep. Andy Biggs, Rep. David Schweikert...

We are going to actually try to touch on 3 or 4 different things this evening, and I am going to try to make it all sort of connect together. On a personal level, I was very pleased as we were doing the supplemental and the mechanism in…

As I get set up, in past years, when I used to have to sit up there, it was because the Speaker was annoyed with me. I am sure that would never happen in your case. You don't have to say anything. Madam Speaker, I try to come to the floor…

My family accuses me of being incapable of speaking without moving my hands or without displays, so we are going to see if we can do a little bit of both that we are good at. Mr. Speaker, about every week, I try to take a block of time and…

I am going to come down to the lower microphone because we are going to be using a number of slides, and I want to apologize right now, this one is going to be a little thick. We are actually going to do some information in regard to what…

I enjoyed it. Madam Speaker, there is a path. Will we step up and understand that the path turns out to be complicated? We are going to make some of our constituencies just elated with the opportunity to change. We are also going to…

Exactly, Madam Speaker. States are going to be a real issue, and then different lobbying organizations and different constituencies. Guess what? We don't have a choice. The single biggest threat to our Nation is the massive wave of debt…

Look, in some ways, telling the truth is like soaking yourself in kerosene and running around with a lighter. Congress has functionally become a protection racket. The armies in our hallways, both with Democrats and Republicans, say, ``We…

We have to be a little careful because I find there are certain insurance companies that are ready to offer a technology, sensor-based healthcare, but it is illegal. There are hospitals I have worked with that desperately want to do an…

To our stenographer, if I start talking too fast, just give me that horrible look because my staff was telling me last week that I was sounding like a machine gun. Madam Speaker, this is something I try to do at least half an hour every…

I will cover two or three different subjects today, a little different than we typically come and we walk through some of the economic data and the concept of I believe the greatest threat to our society is not telling the truth about the…

To my friends here, I wasn't going to come up here and try to do firebrand or the theater, but we do have a little moment of intellectual inconsistency. Let's try a quick thought experiment. We, as a body, my brothers and sisters on the…

I know we all had the points we want to walk through, but can I actually take a step sideways and do more a unified theory reason why I think getting this done is so incredibly important. We talk about our issues with trade with China. We…

I thank the gentleman for letting me come and engage in this discussion, and I may want to ask a couple questions. And we had my doctor friend from Kansas here a couple minutes ago. A quick thought experiment: What is the greatest economic…

This is one of those, the tyranny of the clock as we have talked about, 3 minutes. There are so many things here we agree upon about the rage we feel when we see the pricing mechanisms and those things. But there are so many things also…

What we are going to do today is actually sort of a little follow-up with a couple of other things sprinkled in here. I want to walk through, once again, some of the numbers and some of the good things that have happened. I want to talk…

My wife accuses me of not being able to speak without a chart, so now, when I am home, I walk around with a chart for my 4-year-old, trying to explain what being a good girl is. So far, it is not working. We try to do this every week, but…

This is something we try to do every couple of weeks is come here and actually, typically, our opening board here is we are talking about what are the headwinds to our society, what are the headwinds to our country, particularly over the…

This is one of those moments where, in listening to my friend, Mr. Green, we are friends. We, I think, always voted against each other on most everything, but we were always civil to each other. That is sometimes hard to communicate with a…

This is going to be one of those evenings where I am going to try to actually go through sort of complex numbers, but a lot of it is incredibly optimistic. I am going to do two things tonight: Part of this is just some frustration on…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted nay on rollcall No. 543. PERSONAL EXPLANATION