David Schweikert

We can and should practice better science by leveraging publicly available, crowdsourced data.

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…

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.

Tonight is a continuation of a series I have been doing on the floor every other week, depending on the chaos of the floor schedule. I take about a half an hour and walk through things I see in the numbers and, in many ways, express my…

I have come up this year, this may be the two dozenth time, walking through both the math, the reality. Some of the times I am behind the mike I am much more optimistic because there is a technology disruption, there is economic growth…

Just so staff knows, this will probably be a bit abbreviated because of all the chaos we have going on around us. There is something I wanted to start with. Typically, we come to the floor to spend time talking about what is happening in…

The gentleman does realize how many people are creeping out at this moment that we are friendly to each other.

We really need to talk about Mr. Garamendi's idea of entertainment. Mr. Speaker, look, this is actually a point I wish more of our constituents would actually see. We are actually quite friendly to each other, even those of us who may…

I would say of the gentleman from California (Mr. Garamendi), it is always fun listening to him, because, look, we are friends. We are ideologically separated by about, let's call it a small ocean, but I think there is this passion of we…

To the committee chairman and, in my world, the chairman for life, you have done great. It has been an interesting experience being in the minority, but we are blessed. We have freaky-smart people on the committee. It works. Even when we…

This is actually something we try to do about once a week, come in here and actually sort of talk about our unified theory in our office: What do we do to, basically, keep our promises? Here is a thought experiment. Social Security and…

One of the things we are going to do tonight is touch on some of the numbers that have substantially come out since last Thursday and Friday, and then even more numbers that came out yesterday and today. This is sort of the continuation of…

I am probably going to be a little different than some of the folks you are going to have come speak from our side. I actually, though, like the goal that we agreed to, or the President agreed to in 2015. I believe it is an abdication…

Let me take a quick moment and sort of get adjusted here. We are going to spend a couple of minutes walking through some things that I think are exciting, hopeful, and worth getting our heads around. Every week, I try to come to this…

The gentleman said another one from Arizona. Mr. Speaker, I want to sort of echo what you have heard, and that is a certain happiness that we were all able to move this forward together. I appreciate the chairman, but I also want to be…

Look, those are always hard to do, particularly, you know, when you want to reach out to the families in your community and deal with those really difficult moments. So I appreciate the gentleman, and I am always happy to yield. He has…

I promise not to go 60 minutes. Continuing the series we have been trying to do on a much more, shall we call it, wholistic policy of how to get a sort of unified theory of what will make America's economy, opportunity, our ability to pay…

their new research won't be done in London; it will be done here in New England.

I very much appreciate that. I appreciate this administration's effort on that as well.

Thanks to those lower tax rates, to doubling of the child tax credit, to a nearly doubling of the standard deduction, you know, average, middle-class families in Kansas are seeing over $2,200 of their hard earned money that they are…

This growth is great for all Americans, and it didn't happen by accident.

the last four quarters, we have experienced the highest GDP growth in 14 years.

I would like to actually submit this article that basically says the top 20 percent of income earners pay over 87 percent of all Federal income taxes.

But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income Americans talked about, to me at home, how they couldn't afford the plan and they couldn't afford the penalty.

Wages are growing at the fastest rate in a decade.