David Schweikert

We need to level the playing field for American businesses.

We want the equitable, reciprocal, and enforceable, structural reforms that you talk about.

We have seen a decline of over 50 percent in farm income in the United States ag industry.

But they love him, and they appreciate him, and they know that he is fighting for them.

Our guys are suffering.

you would have to be crazy, in my judgement, not to try something else.

We are pricing out much of our middle classes as--Tirado? Tirado, that is actually--so elegantly said.

many of us absolutely agree, immigration is a crucial part of future economic expansion.

we have a demographic crisis coming at us.

You owe her an apology, as she is trying to survive as a renter, needing that deduction.

It is this elected body that touches hospital services, college tuition, medical care. We have distorted those markets.

we are seeing some upward mobility of entire quartiles that the really smart people had written off in the previous decades.

What we are doing today is sort of a continuation of the theme that since the beginning of this Congress we have been walking through. So let's put this sort of in context. This is probably our fourth or fifth time to come to the floor and…

I am going to try to do a couple of things tonight, and some of this is actually to answer some correspondence we had into our office when we did part of our, we will call it, unified theory presentation a couple weeks ago on what we see…

This is one of those opportunities, now that we have the new session of Congress up and running, to come up here and sort of walk through some of the math and the reality. And, look, it is always fascinating when we hear, you know, the…

Before comments, this was my first term on the Ways and Means Committee. I will tell you that, both on the Democratic side and the Republican side, is a group of very special Members, having been on other committees, even in moments like…

I thank Mr. Hill for yielding. And to the gentlewoman from Arizona, I thank her for doing this every year. This is one of those moments where you are walking toward the microphone because we just got out of votes in Ways and Means, and you…

I thank Mr. Hill for doing this Special Order. Mr. Speaker, I am going to give you, actually, a slightly different recollection, because I am one of those who, over the years, since almost 1982, had time around John McCain. I want to start…

I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. 1047) resolved, that the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death of the Honorable John Sidney McCain, III, a Senator from the State of Arizona, and ask for its immediate consideration. The…

For a very quick closing. In a previous life, I was the treasurer of Maricopa County. We had 3,300 taxing districts in this county. A substantial number of those taxing districts were actually just these, irrigation and water delivery…

Just sort of a quick commentary. I want to thank the gentleman from California for his input, his observations. He has been incredibly constructive and paid a lot of attention to protecting his constituents. Those of us from arid areas, we…

I will do this really quickly. Being from Arizona, where I have, functionally, 23 Tribes, 21 or 22 reservations, it is surprising how often this becomes a subject and trying to understand how big and complex many of our Tribal communities…

As a matter of fact, she is third generation adopted now in the family, so obviously we are doing something wrong.

We just finished a visit to the McKesson facility that is on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, and they are talking about several hundred additional positions. As we sort of talk about this, we actually had a really neat…

The gentleman was there during some of the brutal years of the previous decade. The gentleman may remember the struggles of trying to keep the wheels on of how do you cover healthcare, education, and so many of the other needs that are in…