the gentleman from arizona is recognized mr. schweikert: mr.n, maybe■v■i for 40 seconds or so would the gentlewoman from florida enter into a colloquy with me. you have a much higher degree of expertise, both of you do, in regards to v.a. issues. i do taxes and medicare financing. one of the reasons we were hopeful on this is because we -- it's sort of a closed ecosystem. it gifts us the -- gives us the chance as we learned with pilot programs to use that as a we know the rules here, saying, here's a chance to do sort of the test. the pilot program if it works with the v.a. hopefully our future is moving into other parts of the government. am i being unrealistic? ms. wasserman schultz: using artificial intelligence and anything we can do to efficiently and effectively make sure we can assist the v.a. in processing claims is a good thing. we are likely at the nascent stage to use that kind of technology. as this is an increased-decrease amendment, it gives you an opportunity to come here and talk about the importance of making sure, highlighting

schweikert, for 30 minutes. mr. schweikert: thank you, mr. speaker pro tem. ok.nd try to demonstrate that the primary drive over debt is the fact, you know, our demographict lots and lots of chart here's os sort of demonstrating the death spiral the country is heading toward. when interest, when total interest this year is going to be maybe just a little shy of $1.2 trillion, making interest the second expenditure in this government. so social security will be about $1.2 billion. then believe it or nre fightingr who is going to be third and fourth. i thought it would be more hn rabble to come mind this mic and say all right. we've defined the problem over and over and other. i don't seem to be making much my brothers and sisters being willing to accept the actual math, because our rich people more, then we show them the economic papers that make it clear. you know, you could maximize people's taxes for those over $400,000 on their income tax, estate tax, the whole lt of taxes. and when you do the economic effects you get 1.5% of g.d.p. for us on the right, we hav

schweikert is recognized. mr. schweikert: congressman green, let's be honest. we're oceans apart as a traditional democrat and a conservative republican but yet since the day you've been here, you've always been remarkably kind to me. you're one of my little girl's favorite people because you're sweet to her. it's a demonstration we may see lots of the world differently. you know i'm passionately trying to convince you that the morality of making people healthier is the most powerful thing we can do in income and equality and some of the inflictions that exist in our society today. one day i'm going to close that deal. but thank you for being so kind to my family and i. madam speaker pro tempore, this one's going to be a little thick. and i apologize right now to the person who has to try to keep these words down. last friday we issued the joint economic report. the joint economic committee actually has a really neat history, 1956, i think it was chartered. actually, right now i'm finishing up the autobiography of milton friedman and they talk about the number

my colleague, mr. schweikert, he should be on this panel. i've been with him, his a family, his kids, it is absolutely the difference in their lives in the future, and thank you so much for never walking away from your faith and never being able to say i'm not going to practice it. i was in normandy a couple of weeks ago. you know, all those guys 98, 99, 100, there's no atheists in foxholes. thank you so much for being here. >> mr. larson. if. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to especially thank the panelists as well for your insights today. i want to associate myself with remarks of mr. neal and focus a little bit on social security first. there million children who are social security recipients, and, mr. geen, you remarked most of the children receiving care are not infants. they come because of a deceased parent. yet here we are talking about what we need to do. how about the fact that congress hasn't voted to enhance social security in more than 53 years? is there anyone on this panel who doesn't think that enhancing social security s

my colleague, mr. schweikert, he should be on this panel. i've been with him, his a family, his kids, it is absolutely the difference in their lives in the future, and thank you so much for never walking away from your faith and never being able to say i'm not going to practice it. i was in normandy a couple of weeks ago. you know, all those guys 98, 99, 100, there's no atheists in foxholes. thank you so much for being here. >> mr. larson. if. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to especially thank the panelists as well for your insights today. i want to associate myself with remarks of mr. neal and focus a little bit on social security first. there are 2.7 million children who are social security recipients, and, mr. geen, you remarked most of the children receiving care are not infants. they come because of a deceased parent. yet here we are talking about what we need to do. how about the fact that congress hasn't voted to enhance social security in more than 53 years? is there anyone on this panel who doesn't think that enhancing social se

i yield back. >> thank you weichered -- schweikert. flower. >> thank you, mr. chairman.nd this hearing very meaningful. i have 190 days left been spending time on issues that bring people togetherth rather than divide em.d i instruct that that's the majority of things before us. they may not make the headlines it may not be with msnbc can and fox news and shows, but these are things that affect real people.they don't cost money. one of the themes that made isn't testing up front actually saves so much. it pays for itself. we spend a time around here and you'll see it today on the floor and you'll see it the week, beating each other up on things to get a you know get a moment headline, to get a zinger in. get enacted into law, they're not going to make a difference to people. it's a distraction. it what you're talking about here is not a distraction. it's not a side show. and it is presented in a compelling way that even a member of congress august to be able to understand -- ought too understand the wisdom of what you're saying. mr. chairman, i'm hopeful in the next 1019

upsets people. >> how we are making -- mr. schweikert: it's -- mr. complicated. i have to do about a half-hour presentation. it's m the disability payments that are part of social security, but it's the labor forcet participation. when you create incentives in society, not to be part of society.■l you lose all sorts of things. let's do this slightly out of order. i was going to do this slide to talk about the scale of what you and i have to deal with. ere you functionallysick? let's be brutal, we should do some fairly revolutionary■[s< ts in the farm bill because we give people money to go buy onion rings. i would say tt's immoral. when obesity is almost half of health care costs. i have a slide that shows t40% f all health care spent in the country. we are dying. and then we have this other issue we are not having children. this last year fertility rates in the united states collapsed. 1.62. meaning france has more children than tell me how we financeecur, medicare, these things which are paying the benefits of today's retirees, that's wait it was e

amendment number 43 by mr. schweikert of arizona. anticipated number 44 -- amendment number 44 by mr. schweikert of arizona. amendment number 45 by mr. steube of florida. the chair will reduce to two minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 43 printed in part b of house report 118-535 by the gentleman from arizona mr. schweikert on which further proceedings were on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerkthe amendment. the clerk: amendment number 43 offered by mr. schweikert of arizona. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the cl