David Schweikert

Well, and only because my undergrad is in real estate and my master's focus was in financing...

But if I am out buying a residential property or getting ready to refit or remodel...

I mean we have a, you know, government that is being consumed by mandatory spending, you know, our entitlement state. You know, it is just--it is math. It is not political. It is the reality of where we are at.

I like to think I am one of the few people in this room that may have a somewhat unique view of what is going on here.

I have learned when we make big-time public policy on something we all know is right, we keep making huge, very costly mistakes.

It is our own bureaucracy that is killing, starving this next generation.

We are doing everything in our power to transfer costs to young people, to keep businesses from growing, and to suppress salaries.

We have just created a whole series of incentives to not grow.

Young people get screwed once again.

The real public policy question is not, oh, let us study it for five years. No, the real question is who decides?

We need to adopt an attitude of innovation, try it, see what works, and when we find a problem, fix it.

Congress really needs to take a look at the big regulatory picture and say 'Why is this agency not getting it right?'

Is my being unrealistic that by October, by fall?

Today's goal is not to beat up the SEC. It is to have a dialogue on what do you need?

One of my great hopes that things like crowdfunding actually created a much more egalitarian access to participate in ultimately the American dream.

Thank you, Ranking Member Clarke.

In the previous years it really was in many ways our only really great bipartisan success.

The entire regulatory program loses its legitimacy and clearly undermines Congress's intent.

I wish this was changed in my statute that would make us more effective.

We have a good relationship with CFPB.

Doctor, do you believe your feedback is being respected by many of those regulatory agencies?

Well, the framework comes from the late Carter Administration?

I never used the words wisdom and Congress in the same sentence.

When agencies are unprepared to provide small entity review panelists with the information and data necessary to evaluate the cost and compliance obligations, the process breaks down.

I once believed that this was a nation of laws; instead, I find this is not a nation of laws, rather a nation of regulations. A 'regunation' if you will.