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David Schweikert is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility and economic growth during his tenure in Congress. Schweikert has been involved in various legislative efforts aimed at reducing the national debt and promoting job creation in Arizona. He has also served on several committees, contributing to discussions on budgetary matters and financial services.
Plus another $400 billion of the mandatory. So many of our brothers and sisters around the country don't understand. It is so out of whack now because all--look. The number one growth is healthcare cost, but that is sort of on autopilot…
It is worth pointing out, for everyone looking at that, you see that chart of defense and let's call it nondefense.
As a courtesy and also the fact that the gentleman did a kindness to me a while back--so what goes around comes around--I am going to give Mr. Hoyer a couple more minutes to finish his speech. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from…
I fear--I despise the concept that the fraudsters get away with this and the small businesses actually end up in the position of being punished.
I am going to yield to the gentlewoman from Florida such time as she may consume when she is ready. Madam Speaker, I thank you for your patience as the clock, as you know right now, sped up on us, and we are all running around like crazy…
Congressman Buck, one of the best ways to think about this--the budget window we are working on in functionally about 9 budget years, interest is going to be more than all of defense. That is already baked into the cake.
There are also other things going on. People don't realize, it is not just the $2 trillion of excess spending that has to be borrowed, how much of the debt has to be refinanced all the time. You actually have, let's say, $26 trillion of…
Actually, if 400, I think, was the baseline number, with the higher interest rates and the amount of borrowing, you could be approaching 600.
The number has actually been going up fairly dramatically. In the first 7 months just interest carry, just because the increase in interest, went up $108 billion.
These concerns are just as relevant today, and they should be fully considered before moving forward with this legislation.
I need a 24 percent payroll tax tomorrow and a 20 percent VAT tax tomorrow to stabilize U.S. sovereign debt to 97 percent of debt to GDP.
I think it is insane you maintain your own servers when you have substantial portions of the Department of Defense on highly-encrypted cloud servers.
I desperately--what can I do, as a Member of Congress on this August committee, to help you do a hell of a lot more of this?
Not everyone wants to engage in the IRS in the same way, and not everyone has the means or the position to do so.
Our brothers and sisters on the left promised us, hey, here is what these things are going to cost.
We have all these lakes up and through this really rugged mountain territory just outside Phoenix, and we are going to pump water up when power is basically free.
But what I beg of you is in your opening statement you said wellness care, but you did not say we need to fix nutrition support.
You are the epicenter of what in many ways is the greatest threat to our republic, and that is our debt.
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