David Schweikert

What you are doing is very important because those of us on Ways and Means are trying to find a way to do a tax hearing in Indian Country.

What is unique about President Harvier and his leadership is the Salt River Pima Maricopa is actually very sophisticated.

I have got to tell you, from a standpoint of formerly being in the private sector, and have--while I was present, I was not in the operation at the time of going through the early days of the pandemic.

Your team has actually been great in communicating with me.

I wish we could just get to a situation of is this a program, is this an agency that runs in the best interest of the people who fund it and the same people who fund everything else in our government?

I have a fixation that the adoption of technology is the ultimate solution here.

However, we continue to look at programs and we tend to look at hold-ups in it.

That adoption of technology should dramatically change your structural cost of collections.

And where should we go from here?

I would be happy to get your report.

And, while there is all kind of different figures floating around about what it has cost, I would just caution people to say, you know, any time we say it costs the government, we keep in mind that it actually then gave taxpayers a break…

Last week, I promised we were getting close to actually finishing our math in regard to what was the true story of what was happening with Social Security. A couple of our Ph.D. economists have spent months, and we have put it together…

Maybe we need to really think about this co-op model, these new manufacturing methods, and the ability to do it better, faster, cheaper.

We, right now, as a government, we give $16 billion a year to Big Pharma to buy down the price of insulin.

This is sort of elementary school economics. A dozen things have been said here that are absolutely wrong. Mr. Speaker, if you look at the 2017 tax reform, where did we get the greatest economic boost with the least amount of cost? It was…

I thank you and Ms. Wasserman Schultz and the other Members who spoke for their words. Being from Scottsdale, you know, my community actually has family who have been devastated by what is going on in Israel. Madam Speaker, have you ever…

I promise I am only going to use a few more moments. There are some things I am optimistic about. I promise sometime in the next couple weeks, I will get here and I will actually make some charts. It is just in the last 30 days; the…

I wanted to do a little bit of an update, and I apologize for the three or four people who actually pay attention to the math. They will have seen some of this. Nevertheless, I have a point I want to try to make tonight. I am going to work…

Some of our colleagues on the other side of this have argued that Republicans are the drivers of dark money spending.

I am pathologically optimistic.

if Vladimir Putin were to donate money tomorrow to a U.S. based 501(c)(4), the organization is not required to disclose the source of those funds.

So President Biden should just do his job and secure the border, or Chuck Schumer should take up our Border Security Act.

Last week I promised I was going to do something a little more positive tonight. It is complicated because I basically have a compulsion. Being from Arizona, I sit on an airplane 10 hours a week; 5 there and 5 back. I use these news…

Thank you for your patience as we get ourselves set up here. Mr. Speaker, I obviously try to do this every week we are here, and my goal is not to sound like some idiot economics professor. I am trying to point out the biggest thing that…

I will try to wrap this up in the next couple boards so the gentleman from Texas can have his time. This is pretty much the same thing. We actually did the modelling on the permanent deficit, its interest carrying costs. That is what is…