David Schweikert

I hope those aren't a message from above.

Are we heading towards that unintended consequence of making it harder, making it more difficult, taking away choices...

I thank the gentleman from Florida. One of my reasons for asking you for a little bit of your time this evening is one of these days I'm supposed to come here to the floor, and we're putting together an actual presentation of the Medicare…

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I promise I will not take the whole 60 minutes, because I know many folks have flights to get to. Madam Speaker, one of the reasons I'm here--and we are also working on some additional, shall we say, display items…

My reason for coming to the floor today is, look, there's already been some wonderful arguments, hopefully on our side, talking about cut, cap and balance being a realistic path to get there. But I'm here because the political rhetoric…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One of the reasons I'm here today is, have you ever had one of those moments where you've been watching some television, you've been hearing some of your friends here on the floor, and the level of frustration…

I actually didn't intend to do this this evening, but I got so frustrated with a number of the things I've been watching, both on television and from our brothers and sisters in this body, it became time to actually bring some of the…

I thank the gentleman for the time. It has been fascinating. I accept that I'm a freshman, and I know it's April Fool's Day, but it's been funny hearing the discussion about how this isn't constitutional. Now, let me see. I'll walk through…

In reclaiming whatever time I still may have remaining, I actually appreciate the comments. My ultimate goal is: more competition, more options, more choices. In the quick conversation I just had with the chairman, he assured me that he'd…

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 170, after line 12, insert the following: (e) Extending Length of Flights From Ronald Reagan…

First, I really do want to thank the chairman here for his hard work. Let's face it. This is a tough bill to put together. There's a lot of moving parts. And I truly appreciate the diligence that you and your staff have done to ensure that…

I again would challenge you to work together to come to some kind of consensus that we can all work with you on.

But here's the classic problem in the design of that. If the Neighborhood Stabilization Act does what I think it does, it's either a municipality, a nonprofit, this and that, buying a property, sometimes rehabbing it, sometimes removing…

Look, I've been a Member now of this august body for 75-some days. And I'm starting to learn much of what we do seems to be more based in theater than reality. If I read this amendment correctly, what we're trying to do here is add…

First, this is one of those few moments I get to stand behind the microphone; and I say, having met the good woman from California, she has actually been very gentle to me as a freshman, so far. But one of my concerns here is very, very…

I am pleased that we're actually accepting this amendment, because if we get an honest study from it, it could be some very interesting numbers. But I hope it's an honest study that also looks from top to bottom. Such as in the…

On this Richardson amendment, it's interesting because I always like amendments that are trying to do something technical. But where I'm finding actually sort of a problem in the flow of logic is--think about this: We have a neighborhood…

The gentlelady from Ohio may actually have stumbled upon something, and if she's ready to actually help us, so a State like Arizona, we can actually own our land, great. But until that time, you've got to understand, only 18 percent of our…

Isn't the ultimate failure we have seen up and down the system that, whether it be through regulations, whether it be through incentives, whether the way it has been done, we are failing to price risk;

Today is one of those special days, and for many of us, you think of it as Valentine's Day, but for Arizona, this is our 99th birthday. Today, we begin our 100th year, and the wonderful folks in Arizona, which is a stunningly beautiful…

I never met Judge Roll, but if you were judged by the comments, the love, the number of touches I've received just in the last 24 hours, we have a gentleman here with an amazing history, an amazing reputation. Just walking up the stairs…

I hope I didn't cause a little bit of fussing when I complained that the Administration hadn't met its obligation.

I know there is a certain frustration here because the Administration had an obligation to provide us their proposal, what was it, last week, and something for to us discuss and build around, and here we are blind once again.

Many of us believe, unless we can push through much of this nonperforming inventory, we are never going to hit our true bottom and never going to start to work our way back up.

Does anyone have a brilliant suggestion on how we push this nonperforming overhang through the system; how we incentivize both lenders, secondary holders, whoever it may be, to help us chew this up?