David Schweikert

Let me say to the gentleman from Maryland that he will be happy to know that he actually accepted, en bloc, two of my amendments. Mr. Chair, I am blessed to chair the Oversight Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee, and within there…

I think it was intellectually lazy. I care about the debt, and at the same time move something as your pay-for that actually will have a multiplier of raising the debt.

I think it was intellectually lazy. I care about the debt, and at the same time move something as your pay-for that actually will have a multiplier of raising the debt.

I actually give the ranking member kudos for being intellectually honest. That is actually part of my point. The numbers now are brutally uglier than even Simpson-Bowles. It is one of the things we don't like to say because it doesn't look…

I appreciate the appropriations process. I have some sense of how difficult it has been for both sides. This is the 2019 fiscal budget. Was that really, really that difficult, that draconian? Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time…

As the designee of the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Buck), I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title)…

This is one of those amendments I just felt I needed to make a point here. It is a brutal amendment, but we did some calculations. Fifty-seven percent of this appropriation within this piece of this budget goes to entities that have their…

May I inquire how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 2 minutes remaining.

As a traditional courtesy, I am offering this for Mr. Buck, who has been very kind to us. This is an amendment I think we have all seen versions of. It is structurally very simple. It moves the appropriation amount back to the 2019 fiscal…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount appropriated or…

This is fun to have one of these where we all sort of agree on it. Let me put in a little character--you heard some of the basic mechanisms. The Salt River Project is a waterpower quasi-municipality. It is very unique. It actually predates…

This is actually an amendment that is brutal. It is not a happy place to go, but I am trying to be intellectually honest here. Every dime we vote on as Members of Congress is now borrowed. Remember, Mr. Chairman, the last fiscal year we…

I think the chairman actually was generous. I think it is a lot more than a sledgehammer. This is like a small nuclear weapon. Partially that was the point. Obviously, I care tremendously about IHS and have worked really hard on that. I am…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the spending reduction account), insert the following: Sec. ___. Each amount…

I think in some ways you just described why the fussing over the budget documents is going on. We put together some interesting slides here that we have never presented before. We took these from a researcher at Manhattan and a couple of…

I am sorry you have to hear it all the time sitting next to me, but the math will win. The math will always eventually win. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to the time remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Arizona has 9…

It is worth pointing out, for everyone looking at that, you see that chart of defense and let's call it nondefense.

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…

There is a path where this works, and I want to double down on something. I want to make it perfectly clear: We are not defending rich people, not defending poor people, not defending the middle class. We are just trying to tell the truth…

In some ways, Mr. Kelly and I are the yin and yang of districts. I have a very highly educated district, a fairly prosperous district. I represent Scottsdale, Phoenix. I am blessed to have grown up there. I have to accept that the economic…

I am going to run through a couple of boards real quick. It is going to be a little thick. I am going to do them quick, and we will put these up on the website. If anyone really wants to dive into this, I believe Brian Reedle about 2 weeks…

I apologize to everyone as we are sort of organizing the slides here. Mr. Speaker and anyone that is listening, okay, so the House is in a fairly cantankerous spot right now. Part of my frustration and part of the reason for actually…

For anyone out there who is insane enough to have C-SPAN on, I may suggest requisitioning a life. If you don't want someone to talk to you like an adult, if you don't want someone doing big math, big numbers, and being serious, I am sure…

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…

Let's actually walk through what this means. You are right now expecting that 17,200 or 17,400--there is a little dispute--the cut you are getting as an average couple in America in 9 years. Yea. Okay. Let's actually do that thing where we…