David Schweikert

We all have subjects that we find fascinating. For 25 years, I have actually kept files of abstracts on this because I actually participated in writing Arizona's 1993 concealed carry law. I desperately wish this was an intellectually…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, before I start, what I wanted to share is I have been blessed to be on the Ways and Means Committee now for 11 months. I have found the members on the left, the right, a group of folks with…

I want to do actually two or three things specifically tonight. One is walk through a bunch of data on why the tax reform proposal is actually just sort of crucial to our society and where we are going and, number two, actually walk…

This is one of those moments where-- and forgive me, but I sometimes feel like I live and work in a math- free zone, because you can't intellectually have it both ways, where you are talking about the great difficulties coming, and then…

I thank Chairman Huizenga for yielding me time. A little bit of history: this piece of legislation, the underlying idea, actually was fostered a few years ago. One of my closest friends in Arizona, Lakshmi, is freaky smart, electrical…

My hope is that you find this as entertaining as I did putting some of this together. Actually, let's put these boards up. We are going to actually do something that, with the rollout of the tax reform mechanics--and I apologize to…

One of the reasons for taking this time--and it was only about 3 weeks ago we actually took the leadership hour and we did a series of presentations on what was happening in debt and the excessive spending in the Federal Government, what…

So just to sort of put it in perspective--we have a long on-ramp and we need to start getting on that freeway now.

This is one of those things I partially do, I think, as therapy. About once every other month, I ask for a block of time to try to take a bunch of very complex numbers and try to find ways to put them on boards and demonstrate them. I am…

I embrace that technology.

I am hoping, actually, the same movement toward the identifications and technology that can actually deal with what are products...

How do you design at least language that as technology improvements move... there aren't these great gaps?

What I see is absurd technologywise.

We may be actually, in our attempt to blind these numbers, creating another cascade effect.

maybe I am being pathologically optimistic--and outside, look, some of the political banter that seems to be obligational to throw out, if you actually hear from the right and the left here, I think there is sort of a universal…

We have a whole hour here, and we may actually use the whole hour. This is an opportunity to actually walk through three areas that I care an awful lot about. One, I actually want to walk through something called math, and math in regards…

There may be a cheaper, better, more elegant way to get these benefits out the door and at the same time deal with the amount of fraud that is still built into the system.

Have you ever had that deja vu all over again? Haven't we been doing this one since, what, 2013, 2014? I accept I have been off the committee now for 4 years; yet we are talking past each other. I hear the gentlewoman and some of the…

I don't really know the gentleman from Virginia, but you can hear in the tone of his voice he is truly well- meaning and cares about his State and his population. If you actually read this motion to recommit, things in here, such as best…

Look, I miss the Science Committee, and I know I have been banned, and I have had a lot of coffee today. I was going to come up to the microphone and sort of do the blast away, but let me back away. A number of things I have heard in this…

when you use the term 'disruption,' we're one of the epicenters of it.

Can we all have an agreement, though, that expansive monetary policy does enable those of us who are responsible for fiscal policy...

I guess the theme I was working on in many ways we can build a model that demonstrates that there is a massive, massive misallocation of capital, and it was arrogant of us to somehow think it was going to go where we all wanted it to go.

I am here to speak about one of the ideas in this package that I have, shall we say, 5 or 6 years in; and the interesting thing, it was a conversation back and forth with a number of Democrats on the other side. It was one of those--it…

I thank Chairman Huizenga for the couple minutes. This is one of those moments, has anyone actually read the four pages on the bill? Great. In that case, we should all know this isn't about selling jets. It is about using the American…