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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.
Don't you love that, when we take a few minutes getting organized because sometimes we walk around with so many moving parts? This is sort of the continuing conversation that we have been doing on a theme for well over a year now, in the…
I thank my friend from Kansas who represents my wife's family. Hopefully, I won't take a couple of minutes, but there were a couple of things as we were doing some economic numbers before. The modeling right now says if USMCA passes, it is…
I thank Representative Maloney. We always have to be careful when we are friends not to go around calling each other by our first names. But I was not here at the time of 9/11, I did not come for another decade. And yet today, even with…
I thank Representative Maloney for telling the story. You know, it is not just New Yorkers, I can't imagine there is an American who doesn't remember exactly where they were in that horrific moment. And it's a moment yet where those of us…
I can't thank your committee and subcommittees enough for recently approving H.R. 2041, Representative Tonko's Weatherization Enhancement and Local Energy Efficiency Investment and Accountability Act.
I want to applaud first on workforce development Chairman Rush and the full committee for your attention to the workforce development and pipeline issues at the Department of Energy.
The vast majority of these units are illegal since we know that legal permitted short-term vacation rentals are in the low thousands.
I applaud this subcommittee for its recent action to advance a number of bills related to drug pricing.
The Department of Energy must be more proactive about recruiting and training a new generation of innovators because our country needs to compete in a new world economic order in which our nation is skills short.
No one should have to choose between evacuating and losing access to lifesaving services and staying and possibly losing their life to a natural disaster.
I just thought it is important for all of us to hear it on the Record that we are not opening up a new avenue of investigation because I need to be brutally honest that the language of the legislation, I don't think, is crisp enough on…
Our legislation would raise the age to buy tobacco products to 21-which now has bipartisan and bicameral support.
According to the Energy and Employment Report for 2018, roughly, 12 percent of today's energy workforce is eligible to retire--we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people--and 70 percent--70 percent--of industry employers in…
Natural disasters are occurring at increased rates across this country and in the aftermath of such disasters thousands of people are often forced to abandon their homes and relocate.
How about a system that's less about the paperwork and actually more about keeping the air cleaner?
There is technology coming and it's on the cusp right now if we can remove the barriers to it that can crash the price of healthcare.
Something must be done to combat the youth use of e-cigarette products and to continue our longstanding public health battle against smoking and tobacco use.
I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Reed) for yielding. Madam Speaker, the reason I am behind the microphone is because, in the committee, we actually asked the question of staff and others who were testifying that this look-back to…
I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Brady) for yielding. I may come to the microphone with a slightly different message, having been on the bipartisan multiemployer pension commission, having hundreds of staff-hours into digging into the…
It's time we embrace the fact there's a technology disruption that can fix so many of these goals and it--yes, it's a threat to the bureaucracy. But the benefit is we live in a cleaner world.
Why wouldn't we do that same technology, that citizen science technology, to say maybe file cabinets full of paperwork isn't the best way to protect our environment?
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