David Schweikert

Are we tracking what's happening out there? Do we know what's happening?

Our legislation would raise the age to buy tobacco products to 21-which now has bipartisan and bicameral support.

Something must be done to combat the youth use of e-cigarette products and to continue our longstanding public health battle against smoking and tobacco use.

No one should have to choose between evacuating and losing access to lifesaving services and staying and possibly losing their life to a natural disaster.

Natural disasters are occurring at increased rates across this country and in the aftermath of such disasters thousands of people are often forced to abandon their homes and relocate.

I can't thank your committee and subcommittees enough for recently approving H.R. 2041, Representative Tonko's Weatherization Enhancement and Local Energy Efficiency Investment and Accountability Act.

The Department of Energy must be more proactive about recruiting and training a new generation of innovators because our country needs to compete in a new world economic order in which our nation is skills short.

According to the Energy and Employment Report for 2018, roughly, 12 percent of today's energy workforce is eligible to retire--we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people--and 70 percent--70 percent--of industry employers in…

I want to applaud first on workforce development Chairman Rush and the full committee for your attention to the workforce development and pipeline issues at the Department of Energy.

The vast majority of these units are illegal since we know that legal permitted short-term vacation rentals are in the low thousands.

But today's massive internet platforms that offer services cannot be allowed to knowingly facilitate lawbreaking in our states and localities by hiding behind CDA 230 immunity.

It's time we embrace the fact there's a technology disruption that can fix so many of these goals and it--yes, it's a threat to the bureaucracy. But the benefit is we live in a cleaner world.

There is technology coming and it's on the cusp right now if we can remove the barriers to it that can crash the price of healthcare.

We are having the wrong argument about healthcare over and over and over.

The gentleman does realize how many people are creeping out at this moment that we are friendly to each other.

I would say of the gentleman from California (Mr. Garamendi), it is always fun listening to him, because, look, we are friends. We are ideologically separated by about, let's call it a small ocean, but I think there is this passion of we…

In Ohio, if we increase the minimum wage to $50 an hour, I guarantee you the wages would go up.

But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income Americans talked about, to me at home, how they couldn't afford the plan and they couldn't afford the penalty.

So raise your hand if you think the individual mandate helps lower income Americans?

And I hear people say things which I don't appreciate, because in the line of civility to call something a scam, I don't know what some people consider a scam, but we just endured 2 years in this country of being told that the President…

94 percent of the middle-class clients that he has benefited from the new tax law.

Our unemployment rate is at a 50-year low.

Wages are growing at the fastest rate in a decade.

The last four quarters, we have experienced the highest GDP growth in 14 years.

I would like to actually submit this article that basically says the top 20 percent of income earners pay over 87 percent of all Federal income taxes.