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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.
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…
I will have a little bit of a colloquy or a little bit of a conversation with the gentleman. For those of us in Arizona, the gentleman has seen the data that came out about 2 weeks ago that turns out that Arizona is actually having what…
I ask Congressman Biggs: Those of us who see these numbers, how do we find a way to humanize that discussion? We want to talk about economic vitality and these things, but there is almost this cruelty of you are going to remain unemployed…
I thank Representative Lesko. I am so used to calling her Debbie, having known each other for so long. What is also amusing here is, the next person I'm going to introduce, I have actually known most of my life, which is sort of…
I remember when the gentleman first got here, and we were going over those models. They were like 1.8, 1.9, and that was our future. Let's face it, we have blown that off the rails.
This is actually one of those sort of joyful moments that we finally get a chance to come up here, and we don't very often get to do that. We are going to have a discussion of what is happening in our economy, in our society for both our…
I am one of the people who have to actually admit to this, that, often, as Republicans, we sound like accountants on steroids. We are looking at the numbers. We want to do policy by facts and not feelings, because when you do things by…
This is one of my favorite stories. About 6 weeks ago, maybe 2 months ago, I believe it was Starbucks that gave the bonus, and I am in my favorite Starbucks. As the gentleman knows, I have a coffee problem and openly admit it. If anyone…
In that same vein, it was only a couple of years ago, actually behind these same mikes, that a discussion was had of the sort of concept of people being trapped, trapped in their house because they were underwater, trapped in their job…
There is actually some really fun and wonderful things we are seeing out there in the data. As we were also talking about the unemployment numbers, what has also been amazing is, if you look at home prices, if you actually look at savings…
I have a quick thought experiment for everyone. If I had come to you a year ago and said that the United States would be at 3.8 percent unemployment, you would have laughed at me. If I had come to you and said that African American…
I know I kept him longer than I promised to, but I never get the chance to talk. Madam Speaker, I have appreciated this block of time. I appreciate your patience with us, particularly talking about Arizona, but it is-- you know, we love…
Americans are counting on us to get this right. They want, need, and deserve nothing else.
As I get myself organized here, this evening I am going to actually try to do something that is probably a little dangerous and a little tricky. I am going to try to do some math from behind the microphone. You know, we have a running joke…
Long term, some of us have a fascination of what worldwide trade can do, particularly considering our demographic issues.
there are many of us on this Committee that are absolutely just fixated on the de minimis value with Mexico and Canada.
It is to that issue. It doesn't rewrite our laws or the Mexican laws or the Canadian laws.
I actually think we are whistling also by the crisis. If I sit here and do math, Medicare Social Security will be adding 130 billion a year in additional entitlement spending.
This legislation, I believe, is Representative McHenry's, so it is already out there.
What would happen if I came to you and said there is a more elegant way to do that?
Tonight, I wanted to do, actually, two or three things. Some of this has been bouncing in my head since we were on this floor a few weeks ago doing the tax reform discussion debate, and the number of things that were said that just sort of…
My assumption is that everyone in this room has been affected by addiction in a family member, a friend, or a neighbor.
As we try to get the boards to line up, we are only going to do three of these today. Mr. Speaker, one of the things I wanted to do tonight, and we did it during sort of the debate earlier today--I hear lots of the discussions from our…
I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I am going to give everyone a slightly different view. There was an interesting editorial this weekend in The Wall Street Journal, and it basically said: Hey, those on the left look at income…
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