David Schweikert

Community banks have expressed to me direct concern regarding the proposed Basel III rules on capital requirements and the effect they would have on bank lending and especially on the local economy in my State of Georgia.

Out of the things we deal with here in Washington, trying to find a way to save money for this country shouldn't be political theater.

I thank the gentleman. This is one of those moments of wondering where you begin with some of the absurdity that we hear. I think this might be one. I skipped the last set of comments because they had nothing to do with this amendment. The…

a little financial rollercoaster

Reclaiming my time, Madam Chairman, and I appreciate the gentleman from Maryland's comments. But he hit one part there, and that is you do believe that the costs to industry, to business, to job creators should be calculated. It's just the…

And to my friend from California, she has always been a passionate and very articulate in the battle for resources for the regulators. But I'm going to stand here in opposition to this amendment for a couple of very simple reasons. One…

My two arguments still stand. But there is one other point. And I actually have a little bit of information here. According to the inspector general of the CFTC, the commission regularly employs a ``stripped down'' type of cost-benefit…

To my friend from New York, this is sometimes one of those amusing moments you get where we're both referring to the same litigation as part of our arguments against my side and for her amendment and somewhat making the point that, in that…

Woman, just one quick comment I'll throw in there. I'm part of the belief system that one of the great burdens right now in economic growth and to sort of that next generation of what's the next world of jobs that will be coming into our…

My amendment hopefully is deemed to be somewhat simple, as this piece of legislation moves forward, trying to make sure that definition of cost from the regulatory environment, is properly, shall we say, a proper box is built for it. So…

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 8, line 10, insert after the period the following: ``In determining the annual cost to the economy…

Should we be coming together trying to move toward a single point of contact from a regulatory environment to something that is much more simple, much more understandable?

I think within Dodd-Frank there are substantial questions outstanding for the RMBS market.

We believe a Trade-At Rule would stifle innovation and set the U.S. equity markets back more than a decade.

Oh, yes. I think they have multiple casinos. There's another fact that bounced up here, Mr. Speaker. There's actually, I think, one, two, three, four, five casinos in the urban area by, I think, three different Native American communities…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I come to this with a somewhat unique view, because I was actually there 19 years ago as the majority whip in the Arizona State House when this was originally being negotiated. I sat in the room hour…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. This is one of the moments where you get to stand up behind the microphone, and being from Arizona, embrace the irony. Think of this. This Federal Government sues my State for actually enforcing the…

Woman, may I inquire as to my time? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 3 minutes remaining.

This is actually an interesting debate from an economic standpoint. Being from the desert, where we actually really, really care about our water supply, we've learned something. I'm one of those people who lives in a house with rock…

This is one of those sort of occasions I'm going to refer to this almost as the law of unintended consequences. About 6 months ago, I was visiting one of my favorite places in life, a Starbucks in Scottsdale, and a gentleman walks up to…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

What I am hoping to actually hear from the panel--actually, Mrs. Maloney, should I be worried that there is another one of you running around Maryland?

So in that case, you have actually done much of the research for--if there was some private right of action, you have actually done much of the work for it.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act…

I think you, and probably all of us in the body are noticing a theme here on many of these limitation amendments. Being someone that comes from Arizona, there's a reason we've been actually applauding many of these amendments. We feel, as…