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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.
Can I bring a slightly different discussion and weave it back into the things that have been said here? Mechanically, we often have this conversation that if we had a more holistic understanding of the money that was going to bad actors…
Many of us have sat on the terrorism finance committee, and I appreciate Chairman Hensarling for allowing me to sit there. But the more you learn, the more you understand the levels of complication. We have this habit around here, when we…
I mean would that be a rational approach for us just to make sure that the fidelity to the fiduciary, if you can say it that way, is upheld?
I thank the gentleman from Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I actually wanted to touch on something that is a little bit different. Look, we have all seen the documents. We have all heard the argument, even this evening, on the bad acts. Now I want to…
To our friends on the other side, I will let you know, I am going to move to withdraw the amendment, but I do want to share a little bit of an explanation of why I am taking this approach. I am blessed to represent much of the Phoenix…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following new section: SEC. 11. USE OF DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY TO SCHEDULE…
I was just listening to my friend from New York, and I would like just sort of a little consistency. At one point we talk about job growth and the desperate need for more job growth, but then how many have come behind the microphones today…
In some ways it breaks my heart, and I wish we could get over this game we play around here where it is a Republican piece of legislation, and a couple of my friends on the left feel obligated to stand up and oppose it, even though you and…
And my fear is Silicon Valley is about to run around you and build optionality that says the Federal Reserve is my barrier not my partner.
I desperately hope that the Federal Reserve doesn't become one of the barriers to the adoption of the dramatically more efficient society that we desperately need for that productivity.
And to my friend the ranking member, we partially agree here but it is--like on infrastructure, if the left would be willing to work with some of those who want to stack--adjust the capital stack and how you pay for it, there is a way to…
I thank the chairman. To my friend from Connecticut (Mr. Himes), look, I know you to be one of the, actually, smartest people here on these sort of subjects. So I am going to take a slightly different approach and see if what I am actually…
functionally then you have just sanctified with populations in the Western world a guarantee on the risk premium of a regime that we already know is an international bad actor?
How do we bring these different law enforcement mechanisms that our international partners--because my fear is we have too many silos out there.
In 13½ years, Social Security is out of money. In 8½ years, Medicare is out of money.
You have illicit actors who have billions of dollars at their disposal to be able to pay the best attorneys, the best accountants, the best bankers to come up with the most sophisticated schemes to hide illicit assets.
functionally, money laundering, money movement, asset movement is actually a formal business in a corrupt sector.
We had a technical issue earlier, and we had reached out to my friend's office. I congratulate your staff. They understood the mechanical issue. It was a procurement timing. It has been taken care of with the amendment to the amendment…
the goal is to be removing monetary accommodation and that should raise longer-term rates.
There is a crisis right now in our country, and the fact of the matter is, we have more business concerns closing, going out of business, than being started. If you are concerned about economic growth, if you are concerned about growing…
I thank the chairman and, also, my good friend Congresswoman Love. She actually has become a very valuable member of the Financial Services Committee. I appreciate this bill. We have to talk through something because there is something…
It is a fairly simple argument. If you want a competitive, robust financial market in our banking world, where institutions have the ability to survive because of the crushing costs that Dodd-Frank has created. This is a simple, simple…
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