{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://schweikert.house.gov/2024/07/08/schweikert-the-distortion-fields-around-us-actually-do-not-want-america-to-succeed/", "Schweikert: The Distortion Fields Around Us Actually Do Not Want America to Succeed", "2024-07-08", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "David Schweikert", "S001183", "schweikert.house.gov", "schweikert", "https://schweikert.house.gov/category/congress_press_release/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Representative David Schweikert (AZ-01) delivered a speech on the House Floor this week, connecting the idea that since Congress has such a hard time doing math, members tend to just believe whichever information is most comfortable and accessible, thus lying to the American people about how serious our debt crisis has become. Rep. Schweikert also discussed the chaos that fake news-spreading bots cause in our society, and in turn, sets a precedent for national leaders, like our very own President Biden, to follow suit. He closes his speech by shedding light on the Left creating a perpetual subsidy demand cycle instead of promoting technology disruption, encouraging competition, and allowing the American economy to flourish.\n\nExcerpts from Rep. Schweikert\u2019s floor speech can be found below:\n\nClick here or on the image above to view Rep. Schweikert\u2019s remarks.\n\nOn reminding America that every dime voted on in Congress is borrowed money:\n\n[Beginning at 2:32]\n\n\u201cI like to start with this chart because it lays out where we are at today. You see the red. Seventy-four percent of the spending, in that red area, is on autopilot. We don\u2019t get to vote on it. Do you see the blue? That is defense and nondefense discretionary [spending]. I get to vote on that. Every dime of it is borrowed. And guess what? Interest [spending] \u2014 where the Treasury [Department] sells the bond \u2014we are selling $111 billion in three different auctions this week just to finance our insatiable spending. Remember, and this is one of the things that I find even at home is uncomfortable, 100% of the borrowing from today through the next 30 years according to [the Congressional Budget Office] is interest, Medicare, and if a decade from now we backfill Social Security. It\u2019s demographics. And yet, how do you make policy?\u201d\n\nOn members of the Democratic Party using disinformation to spread propaganda:\n\n[Beginning at 17:15]\n\n\u201cIt turns out a number of Democrat activists are actually setting up fake newspapers. Now, [as if] it wasn\u2019t bad enough, one of these articles in there actually has a section talking about that in American small-town newspapers, as many as half are actually fake. My wife pointed out to me that there was a newspaper from southern Kansas, where she grew up, that went out of business decades ago, and somehow popped up in her news feed and it had this crazy stuff in it. Turns out, that was on the list of the ones that have been sort of spoofed\u2014 a spoof URL, looking like it\u2019s from Russia. Think about that \u2014 in America, about half of the small-town newspapers you see are actually fake. How many of our constituents know that? It\u2019s like the Democrats actually have decided, \u2018Hey, this a great business model. Let\u2019s make up fake newspapers online, have it laced with left-wing propaganda, and we\u2019ll do it under a newspaper masthead.\u2019 Great. How is this not a violation? Once again, the Left proves they\u2019re a hell of a lot smarter than we are when it comes to being [merciless] on campaigns. They figured out a way to get around campaign finance laws. Spend money, but it\u2019s free speech. It\u2019s fake, but it\u2019s free speech.\u201d\n\nOn not allowing disruption to take place in America:\n\n[Beginning at 27:22]\n\n\u201cOne of the slides I wanted to show you was once again another concept of why the Democrats\u2019 Inflation Reduction Act is the most Orwellian named piece of legislation in modern history. They\u2019re very proud of saying, \u201cWe\u2019re subsidizing electric cars!\u201d My wife has an electric car. She loves it! The data basically said, when they passed that, I came here to the floor and showed, \u201cHey, here\u2019s the survey data. Almost everyone that\u2019s going to buy an electric car is buying them with the subsidy [or] without the subsidy. It\u2019s a lifestyle, it\u2019s personal. It\u2019s almost a status symbol, but let\u2019s give away billions and billions of dollars.\u201d Now you actually have breakthroughs. Could you imagine if just a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of that resource had gone into more primary research? [It] looks like there\u2019s been a breakthrough on solar cells, \u2014 \u2018an additional 25.7% efficiency.\u2019 Yay! Except, the problem is, it was developed in China. The very people who preach at us \u2014 \u2018let\u2019s subsidize all this stuff, but let\u2019s subsidize last generation\u2019s or maybe even the generation before that\u2019s technology!\u201d You want me to put solar panels on my house? You want us to drive electric cars? You want this? Make it so economically sensible, make it so affordable, that it is the disruption. Why did you stop going to Blockbuster Video? Because you had a button you could hit at home and stream videos right to your home. Was that subsidized by the government? The fact of the matter is there\u2019s technology disruptions. Why didn\u2019t we fixate on that? Turns out, maybe the disruptions don\u2019t write checks to your campaign.\u201c\n\n###\n\nCongressman David Schweikert serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and is the current Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee. He is also the Vice Chairman on the bicameral Joint Economic Committee, chairs the Congressional Valley Fever Task Force, and is the Republican Co-Chair of the Blockchain Caucus, Telehealth Caucus, Singapore Caucus, and the Caucus on Access to Capital and Credit.\n\nBack to News", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://schweikert.house.gov/2024/07/08/schweikert-the-distortion-fields-around-us-actually-do-not-want-america-to-succeed/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8193030953407288, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}