I should show you the tape from this committee from earlier in the year, where that was stunningly a fight.
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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.
But this one didn't even hit the trifecta. It hit all four, you know, outliers.
My county, and my state, and my communities have been begging for years to put this in a rational spot, and have been ignored.
You are making public decisions, for the public, that affect the public, billions and billions of dollars, maybe for the good, maybe to the bad.
But, look, there is all sorts of protocols in that. I was involved in a very large project, where we were doing analysis of how much mortgage fraud had happened in our communities.
But there is a bizarre comment, because--do what everyone else does. You strip the personal identifiers, and here is your data set.
I have always had this curiosity of why isn't there a level of almost crowdsourcing in the reviewer process.
The funding levels in the draft legislation that the Majority is asking us to consider are simply inadequate
The cost of the government shutdown for 16 days: 120,000 jobs, $24 billion to our economy.
There is nobody I know in Congress who intentionally wants to destroy or kill a job.
I have repeatedly said, just as Chairman Lummis has, that I favor an all-of-the-above approach to energy production.
What I have learned is, in D.C. particularly, there is a cultural split on the value of risk-taking.
You are telling me you have had great difficulty in finding the engineering talent to build your database.
There is a revolution coming for raising money. Will we have the backbone to educate our small entrepreneurs out there how to access it?
I believe actually Dr. Morgan may actually have the solution and that is the crowdsourcing of information.
Through your efforts, entrepreneurs are gaining the skills they need to adjust to the steep learning curve.
Well, also, you know, life isn't foolproof but at some point you play the statistical part of your tale, and sorry, I am way over time, but Mr. Chairman, thank you for your patience.
But Mr. Nastri, to that point, the legacy and time frame of those, having some education in this area----
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