David Schweikert

And one of the problems with investing in space programs is that you have to develop a business model.

My county, and my state, and my communities have been begging for years to put this in a rational spot, and have been ignored.

I should show you the tape from this committee from earlier in the year, where that was stunningly a fight.

But this one didn't even hit the trifecta. It hit all four, you know, outliers.

You are making public decisions, for the public, that affect the public, billions and billions of dollars, maybe for the good, maybe to the bad.

But, look, there is all sorts of protocols in that. I was involved in a very large project, where we were doing analysis of how much mortgage fraud had happened in our communities.

But there is a bizarre comment, because--do what everyone else does. You strip the personal identifiers, and here is your data set.

But how do you ask--and then use it as an excuse to not give us the data?

I have always had this curiosity of why isn't there a level of almost crowdsourcing in the reviewer process.

First, I appreciate being recognized for these 5 minutes, although it is always dangerous when a Member starts walking towards the microphone and they are doing it because something hit their desk and it annoyed them. We have been working…

the funding levels in the draft legislation that the Majority is asking us to consider are simply inadequate

There is nobody I know in Congress who intentionally wants to destroy or kill a job.

I have repeatedly said, just as Chairman Lummis has, that I favor an all-of-the-above approach to energy production.

the cost of the government shutdown for 16 days: 120,000 jobs, $24 billion to our economy.

This is one of those moments where you come to the floor--I am unscripted--and I want to sort of share something from the heart that actually has really, really disturbed me watching this debate over the last few days. I am from Arizona…

You are telling me you have had great difficulty in finding the engineering talent to build your database.

You didn't find any of those types of venture capitalists here in Arizona?

Okay. So this is your system. You are building an SQL----

I am enraged about what the SEC is doing in regards to this whole category.

What I have learned is, in D.C. particularly, there is a cultural split on the value of risk-taking.

Through your efforts, entrepreneurs are gaining the skills they need to adjust to the steep learning curve.

I believe actually Dr. Morgan may actually have the solution and that is the crowdsourcing of information.

There is a revolution coming for raising money. Will we have the backbone to educate our small entrepreneurs out there how to access it?

I thank Congressman Gosar, and from all of us, I see Peggy has slipped off the floor, but happy birthday. Mr. Speaker, I actually come here before the body with somewhat of a unique perspective on what's going on here. And I hate to admit…

Instead of initiating 404(c) action, EPA sought to better understand the region's salmon resources and potential threats by performing an ecological risk assessment.