David Schweikert

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.

I despise using the term 'underclass,' but we are brothers and sisters who are having a really tough time in society.

our unemployment rate is at a 50-year low.

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

94 percent of the middle-class clients that he has benefited from the new tax law.

Please. Please. Any of you that believe that somehow the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act hurt America, please raise your hand right now.

In Ohio, if we increase the minimum wage to $50 an hour, I guarantee you the wages would go up.

And I hear people say things which I don't appreciate, because in the line of civility to call something a scam, I don't know what some people consider a scam, but we just endured 2 years in this country of being told that the President…

So raise your hand if you think the individual mandate helps lower income Americans?

I was absent from the House floor during today's rollcall vote on H. Con. Res. 24. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 125. ____________________

What we are going to do right now is, and we are going to hopefully only take about a half an hour, actually walk through sort of the continuing theme of how at least our math--and particularly in our office, we have been trying to put…

You are very kind, and I thank you for the colloquy. Look, many of us just want to solve the problems. I have the best little girl in the world sitting in the back right now. She is 3 years old. What does her future get to be like? We have…

That is actually a brilliant way to phrase it. My continuing thought experiment, and this is a little beyond where we were going, but it makes the point, visit Washington, D.C., or a bunch of other locations now. They are not going to give…

Yes. But the beauty of it is that model has said that we have actually already created a value on this carbon, and if you don't put it into the environment but actually use it for other things as a filler in plastics, as a filler in…

It is actually a tax credit according to the amount of tonnage you produce of ACO<INF>2</INF>.

The gentleman is one of my buddies from Florida. He actually gets this, but he also knows I actually love the technology disruptions, because none of us has figured out if it is Republican or Democrat yet, which actually makes it possible…

Coming from Arizona we have sort of this utopian view that one day Arizona may become a coastal State.

I knew you were going to say virtue signaling. This is a little bit sarcastic, and I mean it to be slightly on the humor side, one of the first things every Member of Congress should put into their budgets is the ownership of a calculator…

The mission of the Republicans on this subcommittee is to secure Social Security benefits without tax increases.

I believe that Social Security is the single most successful domestic program of the 20th century and it is our solemn obligation to preserve it and continue it and strengthen it for the 21st century.

we need to act now to address some of these issues with Social Security.

we want to make sure that the solution does not involve some devastating tax increases.