David Schweikert

To my colleague from Oregon, one more time, the reference points in the GAO study actually said vehicles that lay idle, and that is why we chose these. There was actually a reason for choosing these three agencies. Mr. Chairman, a couple…

To my friend on the other side, there was a GAO report--I think it might now have been a couple of years ago--and these three agencies actually were tagged as having the highest number of vehicles as a percentage of, I believe, employment…

These amendment marathons can often be a bit exhausting around here with all sorts of ideas coming from different directions, but now for something completely different. Our government is heading to having about a half a million light-duty…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title VI of division A, add the following new section: SEC. 6027. PILOT PROGRAM FOR REDUCTION…

All right. So fuzzy math, even though we now require the International Monetary Fund to use fair value accounting, even though many of you, when you voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, demanded fair value accounting. We now demand…

Not to belabor this one, because actually, in many ways, our friend from Oregon has spoken to this one. I actually believe we may have some misreading of what the previous one says, but we will adjudicate that again maybe over coffee. This…

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 1032, after line 4, insert the following: SEC. _____. USE OF FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES. The…

I thank my friend from California and my fellow Members who I just pushed out of the way. Look, I know that we are discussing a transportation bill. But if you look at an amendment like this, the understanding of what is coming at us…

I thank the chairman. Mr. Speaker, have you ever had one of those instances in which you are listening and you are trying to find a way to say, ``I believe much of the argument we are hearing here is intellectually disingenuous''? The fact…

I thank the chairman. I hope you are all listening to some of the use of the language. I appreciated the history lesson. But has it been lost on you, the irony part of this discussion that, hey, we are going to do a discharge petition…

And obviously, once again, I believe our collectively ultimate focus is actually not the agency, it is the people who need the services, and are we doing it the best way to touch the most lives for the maximum benefit.

I thought it was inappropriate, I thought the United States should have participated in the chartering of the Chinese-sponsored Asian Development Bank for the governances.

But do understand there are a number of us who are just really interested in how commerce, the ability to work and trade, is a key solution to dealing with world poverty.

I would love to give this a little intellectual thought, and I am way over time, but this is something I--

And generally, because so many of us have focused on the capital facilities, infrastructure facilities down to the micro financing, how about also now on the sort of micro production side?

I have always been puzzled as to why other lenders don't compete down the high costs of these payday loans, the 390-percent interest rates and the like.

Just as one policymaker, I have great concerns about proprietary data making public policy because when the rest of us cannot sort of stress it and see it and match it and test it, there is something almost unseemly of: Well, we bought…

How will my constituents who use the credit as intended and needed be better served by a rule that is overly prescriptive?

This business with the auto dealers is a bad thing. It is a bad deal.

You based that on a report that was shamefully flawed. It was inaccurate.

You have hundreds of auto dealers who are African Americans, but when you put this blanket indictment, you hurt them.

do we not have to telegraph to the world, here is our debt management plan?

we need to be telling the world how we are going to manage this skyrocketing debt that as we saw on congressional budget in their document say 2018 it is game on, the debt starts to explode.

But ultimately, would you not agree, a true market-sensitive, let us call it floating, currency coming out of China would be good for the United States?

First I would like to thank Chairman Royce. He has actually dealt with this and done this very honorably. It has been powerful to watch. There has been amazing testimony given to us. There have been great speakers here. But I fear…