David Schweikert

Over the last four years the number of business regulations has skyrocketed and the result has been the worst economic recovery in nearly a century.

As I traveled throughout my district in Michigan, business leaders tell me the same thing over and over again--it is too hard to start or expand my small business because I can barely understand how to comply with the latest regulations…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

This may be one of those areas where we can all agree that we may have to do a fix because it affects a lot of our communities.

I am enthusiastically looking forward to the next round.

My understanding is the way you did that then, you did not do a cost-benefit, go through those mechanics?

How many of us have heard of a little town called Tombstone? It's popped up in movies, American folklore. Guess what? The Forest Service seems hell-bent on ending its existence. This town is older than my State. Its water rights are older…

Community banks have expressed to me direct concern regarding the proposed Basel III rules on capital requirements and the effect they would have on bank lending and especially on the local economy in my State of Georgia.

I hate asking for data when I feel like I am adding cost on the taxpayers.

As efficient as the Mint seems to have become the last few years, and we appreciate the diligence there.

If you were sitting up here and had to go on to the next question after that, where do you start?

Let's deal with the truth, let's deal with the math.

I am, in many ways, on a personal level, almost heartbroken.

Out of the things we deal with here in Washington, trying to find a way to save money for this country shouldn't be political theater.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 8, line 10, insert after the period the following: ``In determining the annual cost to the economy…

A little financial rollercoaster

Should we be coming together trying to move toward a single point of contact from a regulatory environment to something that is much more simple, much more understandable?

I think within Dodd-Frank there are substantial questions outstanding for the RMBS market.

We believe a Trade-At Rule would stifle innovation and set the U.S. equity markets back more than a decade.

Oh, yes. I think they have multiple casinos. There's another fact that bounced up here, Mr. Speaker. There's actually, I think, one, two, three, four, five casinos in the urban area by, I think, three different Native American communities…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. This is one of the moments where you get to stand up behind the microphone, and being from Arizona, embrace the irony. Think of this. This Federal Government sues my State for actually enforcing the…

Woman, may I inquire as to my time? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 3 minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

What I am hoping to actually hear from the panel--actually, Mrs. Maloney, should I be worried that there is another one of you running around Maryland?

So in that case, you have actually done much of the research for--if there was some private right of action, you have actually done much of the work for it.