White House Chiefs of Staff

Mr. Schweikert, would you like to wager a guess as to the likelihood of that reduction staying in law is?

You talked about how every day we wait, it gets harder to do. I remember giving a presentation similar to this at a retirement community in my neighborhood. It was back during one of the first Ryan budgets when we had actually talked about…

How many people have called your office to say: Mr. Schweikert, what is your plan for fixing this?

Mr. Schweikert, there is an ad campaign on television right now that speaks to this. I think it was on during the Super Bowl. It shows a very dramatic bridge scene and the bridge slowly fades into decay, and it says: This is what will…

Yeah. The trust fund is actually fairly simple. A lot of people think that it doesn't exist. They think it is a myth. It is real. What it represents is the accumulated excess collections that Social Security has made over the years. I tell…

Mr. Schweikert, I see you brought up the graph for the Social Security trust fund. Have you explained what the nature of the trust fund is?

As this year stands, it looks like now, when they revise the last quarter's numbers, which they will do here shortly, 2015 will be the tenth year in a row without 3 percent growth in the American economy. If that turns out to be the case…

How many times, Mr. Schweikert, have we held 4\1/2\ percent growth for, say, a decade?

Last time we fixed the Social Security disability--I am making the air quotations when I say fixed disability--by robbing from old-age retirement. Where are we going to rob from the next time when we have both Medicare and Social Security…

Put them so we can see both of them at the same time, please. That is stunning. So between 2021 and 2025, we are going to have the Social Security disability fund go broke----

I have got a question for you. While we are preparing that question, if the young man could put up the previous graph below, that one that shows the status of the Medicare trust fund.

Yet it is not our generation. It is Mr. Buck's generation, the gentleman from Colorado, the older generation, the next generation who is paying closer attention to it.

The real frustrating thing about it, Mr. Schweikert, is that the demographic group that you would hope would be engaged in this topic isn't. When you go home and you and I and Mr. Perry talk to our folks back home, who is most interested…

I thank my friend from Missouri. We have been working on this now 2\1/2\ to 3 years. The bill is fairly simple, Mr. Chairman, in what it actually does. It just takes a second to read the operative line that an appropriate banking Federal…

I think the purpose here is really to sort of treat this as a problem-solving exercise versus a blame-laying.

I think if we're really interested in having a viable refugee program that allows people to resettle here and to integrate and assimilate, that process has to be the very best that it can be.

We had a bill that we voted on in the House, had a veto-proof majority to pause this resettlement program.

I hope very much that they are welcomed in South Carolina, and knowing what I know about my folks back home, I believe that they will be.

I have no further speakers, and I urge adoption. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Mulvaney) that the House suspend the rules and…

I want to encourage my colleagues, if they vote for one and only one of these Export-Import Bank amendments, they should vote for this one. In fact, I would bring to their attention that they probably have already voted for it before…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Rothfus The Acting CHAIR…

In closing on all of these amendments, I want to touch on something we haven't had a chance to talk about here today. There are a lot of people in here who are apparently very proud of the Bank. They are happy with the way the Bank is run…

How much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

How much time is remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina has 3 minutes remaining, and the gentlewoman from California has 2 minutes remaining.