David Schweikert

I reserve to close. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio has the right to close as a member of the committee.

I am elated to hear that. It is one of those, as you spoke in your opening statement, we do have some communities, some populations which do not have necessarily the family structures, the economic structures or banking relationships.

Please be somewhat circumspect on the law enforcement functions you have within your agency and how they affect small businesses.

Because we did not overregulate natural gas, we had massive adoption because we didn't stop it.

But you have to agree it is a brilliant example of technology is faster-moving and smarter than we are.

Less than one percent?

Being someone who worked on this amendment last year--and I appreciate my next-door neighbor and my old friend, Matt Salmon, for bringing it up--for those of us from Arizona, we actually have some very intimate experience with sort of…

I believe what we have done in the way we have written our rules is we have sort of split our society.

But if I am out buying a residential property or getting ready to refit or remodel...

Well, and only because my undergrad is in real estate and my master's focus was in financing...

I mean we have a, you know, government that is being consumed by mandatory spending, you know, our entitlement state. You know, it is just--it is math. It is not political. It is the reality of where we are at.

I like to think I am one of the few people in this room that may have a somewhat unique view of what is going on here.

I wanted to take this 60-second moment to stand here in front of the House and talk a little bit about the Working Families Flexibility Act. I am someone that as a Member of Congress, in a previous life, has run both a State agency where…

This is actually one of those moments when you get to stand in front of the House with sort of a happy story. There's an organization out there called Family Promise. They are in 41 States with, I believe, about 160,000 volunteers, and…

I have learned when we make big-time public policy on something we all know is right, we keep making huge, very costly mistakes.

It is our own bureaucracy that is killing, starving this next generation.

We have just created a whole series of incentives to not grow.

we are doing everything in our power to transfer costs to young people, to keep businesses from growing, and to suppress salaries.

young people get screwed once again.

Today's goal is not to beat up the SEC. It is to have a dialogue on what do you need?

In the previous years it really was in many ways our only really great bipartisan success.

Thank you, Ranking Member Clarke.

We need to adopt an attitude of innovation, try it, see what works, and when we find a problem, fix it.

The real public policy question is not, oh, let us study it for five years. No, the real question is who decides?

One of my great hopes that things like crowdfunding actually created a much more egalitarian access to participate in ultimately the American dream.