Schweikert, D Rep 11%

===Ginni early backer voted ~ cert PA votes;secret sci BSprimary 6/16 on anti-sci bill w/ lamar smith

up and comer?  lcv 11% both; promoted to 2nd 1/14

=wiki 8 22 (see below for older)...<h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2022[</h4><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Arizona#District_1" title="2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona § District 1</a></div>He is running for reelection in the newly redrawn 1st district.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tenure[</h3><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">116th Congress (2019-2021)[</h4>Schweikert joined Representatives <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Biggs" title="Andy Biggs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Andy Biggs</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gosar" title="Paul Gosar" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Gosar</a> in voting against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_Act,2021" title="Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021</a>. He called it "one of the more difficult votes I've ever had to make." While the bill included some components he helped write, he voted against it due to the limited time to read the bill in its entirety.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a>In 2018, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ethics" title="United States House Committee on Ethics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States House Committee on Ethics</a> launched an investigation into Schweikert and his chief of staff, Oliver Schwab, over misuse of funds.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a> On July 30, 2020, Schweikert admitted to 11 violation counts and agreed to an official <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_expelled,censured,or_reprimanded#Reprimanded_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States Representatives expelled, censured, or reprimanded" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">reprimand</a> by the House and a $50,000 fine.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a> The committee found undisclosed loans and campaign contributions; misuse of campaign contributions for personal use; improper spending by his office; and pressuring staffers to do political work. The House Ethics Committee also faulted him for evasive, misleading, and stalling tactics that helped him skirt more serious violations.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a> The report laid out a "surprisingly sizable amount of misconduct over a seven year period." Schweikert said these were inadvertent errors, but the committee reported that "the weight of the evidence" did not support his contention.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">117th Congress (2021-2023)[</h4>On January 6, 2021, Schweikert was at the U.S. Capitol to certify the 2020 presidential electoral college votes when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 storming of the United States Capitol" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Capitol was stormed</a>. He and his staff sheltered in place as the rioters attacked the Capitol.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a> Schweikert did not object to counting Arizona's votes but did object to counting Pennsylvania's. In the wake of the storming of the Capitol, Schweikert voted against the second impeachment of Trump for his role in inciting the attack.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a> In March 2021, he voted against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Rescue_Plan_Act_of_2021" title="American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">American Rescue Plan Act of 2021</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a>As of August 2022, Schweikert had voted in line with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Biden</a>'s stated position 11% of the time.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Committee assignments[</h3>For the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/117th_United_States_Congress" title="117th United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">117th United States Congress</a>, Schweikert serves on the following committees:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ways_and_Means" title="United States House Committee on Ways and Means" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Ways and Means</a><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Ways_and_Means_Subcommittee_on_Health" title="United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Health</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Ways_and_Means_Subcommittee_on_Select_Revenue_Measures" title="United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress_Joint_Economic_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Congress Joint Economic Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joint Economic Committee</a></li></ul>The House Republican Steering Committee removed Schweikert from the Committee on Financial Services in late 2012 as part of a larger party leadership-caucus shift.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-WP01-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a> He, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Amash" title="Justin Amash" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Justin Amash</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Huelskamp" title="Tim Huelskamp" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Tim Huelskamp</a> wrote to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Speaker of the House</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">John Boehner</a> asking why they had lost their committee posts.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico" title="Politico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Politico</a> quoted a spokesperson for Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland" title="Lynn Westmoreland" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Lynn Westmoreland</a> saying that Schweikert, Amash and Huelskamp were removed for "their inability to work with other members."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-The_a%E2%80%94hole_factor-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-'Obstinate'Factor_Continues_to_Roil_GOP-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a>: p.2 <h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Caucus memberships[</h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Caucus" title="Freedom Caucus" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Freedom Caucus</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[55]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Western_Caucus" title="Congressional Western Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Congressional Western Caucus</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[56]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Japan_Caucus" title="U.S.–Japan Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">U.S.–Japan Caucus</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[57]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republican Study Committee</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Political positions[</h2><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); width: 222px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/220px-David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/330px-David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/440px-David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5616" data-file-height="3744" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; border: 0px;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">Congressman Schweikert speaking at a rally in August 2014.</a></div></div></div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">Abortion[</a></h3><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Schweikert_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">Schweikert opposes </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_movements" title="Anti-abortion movements" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">legalized abortion</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a> He has attributed his opposition to abortion to his own adoption.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a>Schweikert supports the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Amendment" title="Hyde Amendment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hyde Amendment</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider(legislation)" title="Rider (legislation)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">rider</a> to appropriations bills that bars federal funds from being spent on abortions, and supports making it permanent.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a> He opposes funding for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood" title="Planned Parenthood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Planned Parenthood</a> in any form, and supported legislation to bar the group from participating in any federally funded program.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a> He supported the 2022 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v.Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization" title="Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">overturning of Roe v. Wade</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cannabis[</h3>Schweikert has a "B" rating from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORML" class="mw-redirect" title="NORML" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NORML</a> for his voting record on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis" title="Cannabis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cannabis</a>-related matters. He supports allowing veterans access to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical marijuana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">medical marijuana</a>, if legal in their state, per their Veterans Health Administration doctor's recommendation, and voted twice in support of this in the Veterans Equal Access Amendment.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-NORML-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Environment and energy policy[</h3>Schweikert has questioned whether humans are causing climate change.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Foreign policy and defense policy[</h3>Schweikert opposes closing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Guantanamo Bay detention camp</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[67]</a> He opposed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action" title="Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">international agreement with Iran on its nuclear program</a>, calling it "disastrous."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a> In 2015, Schweikert was one of 26 Republicans to vote against a Republican leadership-sponsored defense spending proposal; he took issue with increases to defense spending without corresponding offsets.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[69]</a>In September 2021, Schweikert was among 75 House Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022, which contains a provision that would require women to be drafted.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[70]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a>Schweikert was among 19 House Republicans to vote against the final passage of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gun policy[</h3>In 2015, Schweikert introduced legislation to remove firearm sales and ammunition from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corporation" title="Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation</a>'s list of high-risk industries.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[73]</a> In 2016, he introduced legislation to remove the District of Columbia's requirement that people seeking concealed carry permits demonstrate a "good reason" to do so.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[75]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Economic policy[</h3>Schweikert is an outspoken opponent of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act" title="Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</a>, which imposed new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_regulation" title="Financial regulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">financial regulations</a> after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Great Recession</a>. He opposes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau" title="Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcker_Rule" title="Volcker Rule" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Volcker Rul</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcker_Rule" title="Volcker Rule" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">e</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[76]</a>Schweikert supported legislation to kill an Obama administration <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Labor" title="United States Department of Labor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Department of Labor</a> requirement that established a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary_standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiduciary standard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fiduciary standard</a> for retirement and pension advisers, requiring that such advisers put their clients' financial interests ahead of their own.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a>Schweikert opposed Obama's budget in 2011, objecting to appropriations to expand the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Smithsonian</a>, conduct <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research" title="Basic research" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">research</a>, and build <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail" title="High-speed rail" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">high-speed rail</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-Calc-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[78]</a>In 2015, Schweikert was one of 17 Republicans to oppose the Republican budget, arguing that it did not sufficiently address mandatory spending on entitlement programs.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-79" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[79]</a> He has called for cutting spending on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare(United_States)" title="Medicare (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Medicare</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security(United_States)" title="Social Security (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Social Security</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-80" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[80]</a> arguing that "hard choices" must be made.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-Calc-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[78]</a>Schweikert voted for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017" title="Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-Almukhtar122117-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[81]</a>In November 2011, Schweikert wrote a letter to Obama objecting to $70,000 spent by the State Department on books Obama wrote, asking him to return the royalties.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[82]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Iraq[</h3>In June 2021, Schweikert was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AUMF</a> against Iraq.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-83" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[83]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-84" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[84]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Personal life[</h2>Schweikert and his wife, Joyce, live in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_Hills,Arizona" title="Fountain Hills, Arizona" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Fountain Hills,</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_Hills,Arizona" title="Fountain Hills, Arizona" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> [FINCHEM?]Arizona</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[85]</a> They adopted an infant daughter in 2015.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert#cite_note-86" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[86]</a>...=
$125K fine 
<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/david-schweikert-fec/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/david-schweikert-fec/</a>=<div class="large-12 medium-12 small-12 cell" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0.9375rem; margin: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 0; flex: 0 0 auto; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; width: 1278px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><h1 class="single-story-hdr" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 18px 0px 0.5rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.25; max-width: 1160px;">Schweikert admits House ethics violations, agrees to reprimand, $50,000 fine</h1><div class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">By <a href="https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/people/ellie-borst/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; transition: text-decoration 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 600 !important;">Ellie Borst</a> and <a href="https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/people/farah-eltohamy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; transition: text-decoration 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 600 !important;">Farah Eltohamy</a>/ Cronkite News
</div></div><div class="large-8 medium-12 small-12 cell story-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0.9375rem; margin: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 0; flex: 0 0 auto; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; width: 852px;"><article id="story-post" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><div id="story-photo" class="story-photos slick-initialized slick-slider" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 25px 0px; position: relative; user-select: none; touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; max-width: 800px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="slick-list draggable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative; overflow: hidden; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);">Rep. David Schweikert has admitted to 11 counts of campaign finance violations, misuse of congressional office funds and pressuring legislative staff to do campaign work, the House Ethics Committee said Thursday.The Fountain Hills Republican faces reprimand by the full House and has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine in the matter as part of a settlement in which he admitted to the 11 counts and agreed to waive further appeals, the committee’s <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/ISC%20Report%20-%20Schweikert%20-%20final.pdf" target="+blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: text-decoration 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">103-page report</a> said.<a href="https://ethics.house.gov/press-releases/statement-chairman-and-ranking-member-committee-ethics-regarding-representative-13" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: text-decoration 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">The announcement</a> closes an almost three-year investigation into charges that Schweikert “violated House Rules, the Code of Ethics for Government Service, federal laws and other applicable standards.” The probe included interviews with 18 individuals, including Schweikert, and more than 200,000 documents.Schweikert has previously said that he welcomed the investigation of what he has said were largely clerical oversights, and a spokesperson said Thursday that the five-term congressman is ready to put the issue behind him.“We are pleased the Committee has issued their report and we can move forward from this chapter. As noted in the review, all issues have been resolved and Congressman Schweikert will continue working hard for Arizona’s 6th District,” the statement from his office said.But Democrats were not about to let the issue drop. Four Democrats will face off in next week’s primary for the opportunity to challenge Schweikert in a little more than three months.Hiral Tipirneni said in a statement Schweikert “has put his own interests above those of his constituents time and time again.”“Rep. Schweikert has violated his oath, abused his power, lied and misled, and betrayed the public trust with his admission of breaking federal law and ethics rules,” said Tipirneni.In <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/Committee%20Report_18.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: text-decoration 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">its report,</a> the Ethics Committee said the violations it cited “are serious and occurred on a continuous and prolonged basis.”Those included charges that Schweikert’s congressional campaign committee over a period of years claimed to have received loans it never got, falsely reported payments and delayed reimbursements to make it appear his campaign account had more money, what the report called “flagrant and egregious violations of campaign finance law.”In a 33-page statement of <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/APPENDIX%20A%20-%20SAV.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: text-decoration 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">alleged violations,</a> committee investigators also said congressional staffers made campaign purchases, with former Schweikert Chief of Staff Oliver Schwab making purchases of more than $270,000 on behalf of the campaign. Those expenses were reimbursed a variety of ways – including to a consulting company run by Schwab whose only client was Schweikert.The report said congressional staff occasionally paid Schweikert’s personal expenses “ranging from hundreds of dollars in babysitting services, to food that was kept in the Congressional office” and eaten by Schweikert for everyday meals. Some of those expenses were reimbursed by Schweikert and others were reimbursed by the campaign.Congressional office funds were used to pay for Schwab’s travel to Phoenix for what included campaign and personal events, and congressional staff occasionally performed campaign work on government time, the report said. While Schweikert claimed he was not aware of the work, one staffer was quoted in the report as saying “it would take willful ignorance and negligence” for him not to have known.<a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/APPENDIX%20E%20-%20Rep.%20Schweikerts%20views%20on%20Report.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: text-decoration 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">In a reply</a> to the report, Schweikert said it includes “a number of assertions, findings, and unfounded speculative statements … that would be proven false or misleading if subjected to the scrutiny of a full adjudicatory process.” He said he agreed to the settlement to put the issue behind him and to end the financial drain, at one point referencing “hundreds of thousands of dollars on investigative costs.”Schweikert agreed he was ultimately responsible for the actions of his congressional and campaign staffers, but then tried to pin much of the blame on Schwab, saying investigators had “significant reasons to doubt his overall truthfulness.” He said Schwab, whom he considered a family friend, was guilty of “a devastating breach of professional and personal trust.”But the committee said that while Schweikert “sought to lay much of the blame at the feet of Mr. Schwab,” it was ultimately his responsibility to police the office.The report noted that Schweikert has instituted new safeguards in his office and that he made “substantial efforts to cooperate” in the investigation, but that the information was often slow in coming. He “made vague or misleading statements … that allowed him to evade the statute of limitations for the most egregious violations of campaign finance laws … and gave self-serving testimony that lacked candor.”“Representative Schweikert endeavored to keep his head in the sand through most of the … investigation, rather than approach the matter with the level of diligence and candor that he should have,” the report said, citing his repeated assertions that he is a “good guy” who was taken advantage of.Schweikert’s troubles have given hope to Democrats, although his district is still considered to be leaning Republican.It does appear to have hampered <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/AZ/06/2020/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: text-decoration 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">his fundraising.</a> He had raised $1.3 million and had $230,000 in the bank as of June 30, according to his most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission. Tipirneni, by contrast, reported raising almost $2.5 million as of June 30, with nearly $1.3 million in cash on hand.Anita Malik, another Democrat running to unseat Schweikert, said Thursday’s report shows it is time for him to be held accountable. But she called it unfortunate that it came to the point where he had to be reprimanded and fined by the House.“I think he’s getting away with something and it’s unfortunate that we’re seeing this come out of Congress, this should not be a standard I think we should set,” Malik said. “Admission of guilt – to me – is not enough. He brought shame to this district and I think it’s time to resign.”<a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31382.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: text-decoration 0.25s ease 0s; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">A reprimand</a> is a less serious penalty than censure of a House member, in which the lawmaker stands in the well of the House while the charges against him are read. The reprimand can be adopted without the member being present and does not carry other penalties unless specified otherwise.Arizona Democratic Party spokesman Matt Grodsky said he thinks voters have been “fed up with Schweikert’s tactics for a while” and that Thursday’s report makes their choice clear this fall.“$50,000 is a start – but justice will be served when we vote this guy out on Nov. 3rd,” Grodsky </div></div></article></div>=an 820republican Rep. David Schweikert <a title="" href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2020/07/30/rep-david-schweikert-admits-11-ethics-violations-pay-50-000-fine/5362363002/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">agreed to pay a $50,000 fine</a>, accept a formal reprimand, and admit to 11 different violations of congressional rules and campaign finance laws in a deal with the bipartisan House Ethics Committee to conclude its two-year-long investigation of the congressman. But while the matter may now officially be closed, Schweikert’s already uncertain political future is now only more endangered.The Ethics Committee’s wide-ranging findings <a title="" href="https://ethics.house.gov/press-releases/statement-chairman-and-ranking-member-committee-ethics-regarding-representative-13" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">fell into four categories</a>: (1) “campaign finance violations and reporting errors”; (2) spending government money to support Schweikert’s political campaigns; (3) pressuring government staff to perform campaign work; and (4) Schweikert’s “lack of candor and due diligence in the course of the investigation.”A special subcommittee convened to carry out the inquiry determined <a title="" href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/ISC%20Report%20-%20Schweikert%20-%20final.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">in its own lengthy report</a> that Schweikert had failed to disclose at least $370,000 in campaign donations, expenditures, and loans between 2010 and 2017, and had used at least $1,500 in campaign funds for “impermissible personal purposes.” It also found that Schweikert had falsely claimed he loaned his campaign $100,000 on Christmas Day in 2011, then later made up five fictitious payments to a consulting firm that wound up totaling the same amount in order to get his books to balance.Why lie like this? At the time, Schweikert <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/10/6/1023306/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest-Why-does-GOPer-Greg-Ball-sound-like-a-populist-progressive" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">was on a collision course</a> with fellow GOP Rep. Ben Quayle, since redistricting made it likely that both would try to seek reelection in the same district. Schweikert <a title="" href="https://www.rollcall.com/2011/12/22/maneuvering-begins-after-new-arizona-map-solidifies/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">had immediately announced his intention</a> to run in the 6th District as soon as new maps were announced in October of 2011, but Quayle dithered, so Schweikert almost certainly inflated his cash-on-hand figures with his fake loan in order to deter Quayle from opposing him. It didn’t work, as Quayle eventually decided to go head-to-head with Schweikert, but Schweikert wound up <a title="" href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=747244" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">narrowly winning their primary</a>, 51-49tthis sort of scam was in fact an ongoing occurrence, according to the Ethics Committee. Schweikert’s chief of staff, Oliver Schwab, regularly made outlays on behalf of the congressman’s campaign committee that ultimately totaled $270,000, and Schweikert would delay reimbursing Schwab in order to again pad his cash balance on his fundraising reports. He later would conceal repayments to his aide by listing the recipient as Schwab’s consulting company.It was Schwab’s behavior, in fact, that helped spur the investigation that ultimately led to Thursday’s settlement. In the fall of 2017, the conservative Washington Examiner <a title="" href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-lot-of-cash-is-flowing-to-david-schweikerts-chief-of-staff-oliver-schwab" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">published a report</a> alleging that Schwab had taken a trip from D.C. to Arizona for Super Bowl weekend in 2015 that was paid for by taxpayers but included non-official activities, such as a Schweikert fundraiser. The Ethics Committee agreed the use of public funds for this trip was improper, though Schwab had already repaid the U.S. Treasury, leading the panel to conclude that “no further steps are required.”Schwab was also at the center of investigators’ findings of improper pressure placed on congressional staff to assist Schweikert’s campaigns. The committee determined that Schweikert himself “regularly pressured” Schwab to perform campaign work, especially fundraising, and that Schwab in turn pushed other aides to help raise money. One unnamed former staffer charged that Schwab had told him he “would need to take a 40 percent pay cut and his performance would be judged on fundraising,” an accusation Schwab did not deny. Schweikert’s “lax oversight” of his own office, said the committee, was a violation of House rules because of the atmosphere it created.Schweikert had a similarly laissez-faire attitude about telling the truth during the course of the Ethics Committee’s investigation. The subcommittee’s report says the congressman made “misleading” statements, took inordinately long to produce documents, and “made statements that could not be reconciled with the evidence” during his interview with investigators, for which he had come “ill-prepared.” The full committee’s <a title="" href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/Committee%20Report_19.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">briefer report</a> concluded that Schweikert’s dilatory behavior “allowed him to evade the statute of limitations for the most egregious violations of campaign finance laws”—actions that “were themselves sanctionable misconduct.”Perhaps the only good news for Schweikert in all this is that he can finally stop hemorrhaging cash to his attorneys: His campaign had spent at least $1.1 million in legal fees as of mid-July. But now his Democratic opponent in the November general election—likely physician Hiral Tipirneni—will be able to blast out ads reminding voters that their congressman admitted to almost a dozen ethical violation, paid a huge fine, and was formally sanctioned by the House.And if Tipirneni wins next week’s primary, she’ll definitely have the funds to do so. While Schweikert’s campaign balance <a title="" href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00540617/1428084/#SUMMARY" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">stands at a meager $230,000</a> thanks to all those expensive lawyers, Tipirneni <a title="" href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00649897/1428210/#SUMMARY" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">is sitting on a giant stockpile</a> of $1.3 million.Schweikert is also facing an electorate that’s grown increasingly hostile to the GOP: While Mitt Romney carried Arizona’s 6th District—<a title="" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mCaLsoAuf19srhnU3UL37MoEOk4kcd_JxEgj96vIgJk/edit#gid=1591888487" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">well-educated and relatively affluent turf</a> in the Phoenix suburbs—<a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/11/19/1163009/-Daily-Kos-Elections-presidential-results-by-congressional-district-for-the-2012-2008-elections" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">by a hefty 60-39 margin</a>, Donald Trump only won it 52-42, and Republican Martha McSally <a title="" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17yr9mcAtuUdNjI9NEPYKxXsEldzzQ2ZaDwEAbnPRyS4/edit#gid=670824951" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">prevailed just 51-47</a> in her unsuccessful Senate bid in 2018. Given the district’s demographics, it’s far more likely than not that this leftward trend is still underway.It’s quite an irony: Schweikert engaged in all of this skulduggery in order to help him win his past elections. Now it can only help him lose his next one.On February 6<span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant="font-variant" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">, LAMAR Smith and <span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant="font-variant" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) introduced the Secret Science Reform Act.The bill is less than a page long, but it is breathtaking in scope. It forbids the EPA from taking any kind of action – regulatory, advisory, or enforcement – unless the action relies entirely on scientific research that has had all of its data made public.Unlike the “secret science” subpoena effort, the bill doesn’t try to force the disclosure of confidential data. 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</div><div><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; padding: 15px 15px 0px;">House Passes Bill to Usher in New Era of EPA Transparency</h1><div class="block block-system block-main block-system-main odd block-without-title" id="block-system-main" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0em; border: medium none;"><div class="block-inner clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="content clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1em;"><div class="panel-display panel-1col clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="panel-panel panel-col" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 588px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="panel-pane pane-node-created" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 8px; display: inline;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nov 19, 2014 </div></div><div class="panel-pane pane-token pane-node-content-type" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">Press Release</div><div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved the Secret Science Reform Act of 2014 (<a href="https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HR%204012_0.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">H.R. 4012</a>). The legislation requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to base its regulations on data that is public.Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas): “Costly environmental regulations should only be based upon data that is available to independent scientists and the public. However, the EPA does not adhere to this practice.  Nearly every major air quality regulation from this administration has been justified by data that has been kept secret. This bill requires the EPA to base its decisions on information to which all scientists have access.  This will promote sound science and confidence in the EPA decision making process. This bill ensures the transparency and accountability that the American people want and deserve."The Secret Science Reform Act was introduced by Environment Subcommittee Chairman David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) and has received <a href="https://science.house.gov/letters-support-secret-science-reform-act-2014-hr-4012" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">letters of support</a> from over 80 scientists and experts, including the former head of the EPA Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and the former head of the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee.  It also enjoys the support of 30 national and state trade associations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufactures.Environment Subcommittee Chairman David Schweikert (R-Ariz.): “The Secret Science Reform Act rules 'secret science' a condition of the past. Public policy should come from public data. Unfortunately, for far too long, the EPA has approved regulations that have placed a crippling financial burden on economic growth in this country without public evidence to justify all their actions. This common-sense legislation forces the EPA to be transparent and accountable with their findings."The Secret Science Reform Act requires that the EPA base its regulations on publically available and verifiable information without compromising protections for personal information.A <a href="https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IER-Survey-MRW-Strategies-MKM.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">2013 poll</a> from the Institute of Energy Research found that 90 percent of Americans agree that studies and data used to make federal government decisions should be public. Provisions in the bill are consistent with White House policy, the data access provisions of major scientific journals, and the recommendations of the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Obama administration’s top science advisors. The Chair of EPA’s own Science Advisory Board testified that EPA’s advisors recommend “that literature and data used by EPA be peer-reviewed and made available to the public."The Secret Science Reform Act affirms laws prohibiting the disclosure of confidential or proprietary information.  The Act is not retroactive; it applies only to new, future regulations issued by the agency.  The bill forges a new path forward embracing scientific integrity and open government.Companion legislation has been introduced in the Senate by Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming.Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.): “Transparency and accountability should be a priority for every government agency—and the EPA is no exception. After the House passed our bill today, we are one step closer to finally changing the way things are done at the EPA. Since the American people are paying the price for these expensive regulations they deserve to see the science used to justify them."</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">=</div>=<div class="snews-articlearticle-body--full-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Over objections from the White House and many science and environmental groups, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives this week approved two bills that would change how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) obtains and uses scientific data and advice. The bills aren’t likely to become law this year, but they are fueling an intense political battle that is likely to resurface when the new Congress convenes in January.Proponents of the bills, which the House passed almost entirely with GOP votes, say they would increase transparency in how EPA uses data to justify its regulations and result in better, more balanced scientific advice for the agency. “EPA has an extensive track record of twisting the science to justify their actions,” and so reform is needed, said Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX), head of the House science committee, <a href="http://science.house.gov/press-release/house-passes-bill-boost-scientific-integrity" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">in a statement supporting one of the bills</a>.But opponents say the legislation would do more harm than good. “These bills are the culmination of one of the most anti-science and anti-health campaigns I’ve witnessed in my 22 years as a member of Congress,” said Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D–TX), top Democrat on the House science committee, <a href="http://democrats.science.house.gov/press-release/house-consider-partisan-anti-science-bills-aimed-hamstringing-epa" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">in a statement</a>.White House officials say they would recommend that President Barack Obama veto the legislation if it reaches his desk. That’s unlikely in the current Congress, which ends next month, given that Democrats still hold a majority in the Senate. That makes the votes largely symbolic. But observers say they represent another salvo in a long-standing battle over the <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/environment/2013/08/house-panel-subpoenas-epa-air-pollution-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">release of scientific data that underlines key regulations</a>—and a sign of battles to come once Republicans assume control of both chambers of Congress in January.One bill, approved 18 November on a mostly party-line 229 to 191 vote, would overhaul rules regarding the membership and meetings of EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB). That federally chartered body of scientists, economists, and other scholars reviews agency risk assessments and scientific documents and advises the agency on other matters. The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr1422/BILLS-113hr1422rh.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act</a> (H.R. 1422), sponsored by Representative Chris Stewart (R–UT), would require the agency to make SAB’s membership “fairly balanced,” add more public comment opportunities, require more acknowledgment of dissenting panelists’ views, bar panelists from discussing their own research, and limit nonscientific advice from the panel. “Ensuring that the [board] is balanced and transparent will help instill more confidence in the EPA’s decision making process,” Stewart <a href="http://stewart.house.gov/SAB" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">said in a statement</a>.The bill would seek to balance membership by setting a quota for state, local, and tribal government officials on SAB panels and clarify that industry experts aren’t barred from membership as long as their potential conflicts of interest are disclosed.The second bill, the <a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HR%204012_0.pdf" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Secret Science Reform Act</a> (H.R. 4012), would require that the data from any study that EPA draws upon to inform its regulations, risk assessments, and guidance documents be “reproducible” and released publicly as long as the law doesn’t forbid it. “If you’re going to make public policy, do it by public data,” said Representative David Schweikert (R–AZ), the bill’s lead sponsor and chair of the House science committee’s environmental subpanel, on the House floor on 19 November. The House approved the measure on a mostly party-line 237 to 190 vote.Trade associations in key industries—from chemicals to oil to natural gas—<a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/AAI%20Letter%20of%20Support%20for%20House%20Secret%20Science%20Bill%20HR%204012.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">support the bills</a>, saying that boosting data transparency and <a href="https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/11.18.14-hill_letter_supporting_h.r.1422_the_epa_science_advisory_board_reform_act.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">changing SAB’s composition</a> would result in more scientifically sound, and thus publicly trusted, regulations.Opponents, however, say the bills are thinly disguised efforts to make EPA’s job more difficult.For instance, the EPA SAB reform act could “turn conflict of interest on its head” by opening the door to more representation from industry scientists, says Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science and environmental advocacy group, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/113/saphr1422r20141117.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">White House statement</a>argues that the new membership requirements “could preclude the nomination of scientists with significant expertise in their fields.”Public health groups, scientists, and environmental groups warned in a <a href="http://democrats.science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.house.gov/files/documents/Public%20health%20sign-on%20letter%20--%20opposing%20HR%204012%20and%20HR%201422%20-%20FINAL.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">letter to lawmakers</a> that the bill would grind SAB to a halt by requiring an “endless loop” of public comment and responses from the panel to almost every comment. “At best, the SAB will be reduced to busy work. At worst, the SAB’s assessments will address the concerns of corporations, not the desires of citizens for science-informed regulation that protects public health,” the letter argues.The “secret science” bill could drastically cut the number of studies that EPA would be allowed to use in developing rules, the advocates’ letter argues. By requiring “reproducible” data, the bill “seems to adopt a very narrow view of scientific information solely based on laboratory experiments,” it argues, noting that many studies that EPA traditionally relies on involve modeling or analyzing real-world health data, which can be hard to replicate.H.R. 4012 could also rule out EPA’s use of other studies involving confidential health information, which can be important, critics say. And the bill’s requirements “could be used to prevent EPA from finalizing regulations until legal challenges about the legitimate withholding of certain scientific and technical information are resolved,” a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/113/saphr4012r20141117.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">White House statement</a> warns.Rosenberg argues that the real purpose of H.R. 4012 is to enable EPA critics to obtain data and turn it over to their own analysts, in order to pick apart studies they don’t like and produce findings more favorable to their views. “The problem they’re trying to fix is, they don’t like the answer” provided by certain studies, he says.Both bills, or similar versions, are likely to resurface in the new Congress.</div></div>House Republicans Pick Climate Skeptic To Head Environment SubcommitteePosted: 01/16/2014 8:12 pm EST Updated: 01/25/2014 4:01 pm EST<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WASHINGTON -- House Republicans selected Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), who is on the record questioning whether humans are causing climate change, to head of the Science Committee's <a href="http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-environment-0#overlay-context=" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">environment subcommittee</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schweikert will replace Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), who moved to the House Appropriations Committee. He said he plans to use his new post to target the Obama administration's regulatory agenda.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Too often, this Administration has tried to bypass Congress and impose its will on the American people through regulatory fiat,” Schweikert said Thursday in a statement, <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/energy-environment/195687-schweikert-to-tackle-regs-with-new-gavel" target="hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hill reported</a>. “We have a responsibility to provide a check-and-balance to ensure there is fairness and openness in the process and that taxpayers are not being subjected to onerous and unnecessarily burdensome rules and regulations."....November 10, 2014Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-6] (Introduced 02/06/2014)Rules Committee Print 113-57Text Of H.R. 4012, Secret Science Reform Act Of 2014==<div class="snews-articlearticle-body--full-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Over objections from the White House and many science and environmental groups, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives this week approved two bills that would change how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) obtains and uses scientific data and advice. The bills aren’t likely to become law this year, but they are fueling an intense political battle that is likely to resurface when the new Congress convenes in January.Proponents of the bills, which the House passed almost entirely with GOP votes, say they would increase transparency in how EPA uses data to justify its regulations and result in better, more balanced scientific advice for the agency. “EPA has an extensive track record of twisting the science to justify their actions,” and so reform is needed, said Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX), head of the House science committee, <a href="http://science.house.gov/press-release/house-passes-bill-boost-scientific-integrity" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">in a statement supporting one of the bills</a>.But opponents say the legislation would do more harm than good. “These bills are the culmination of one of the most anti-science and anti-health campaigns I’ve witnessed in my 22 years as a member of Congress,” said Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D–TX), top Democrat on the House science committee, <a href="http://democrats.science.house.gov/press-release/house-consider-partisan-anti-science-bills-aimed-hamstringing-epa" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">in a statement</a>.White House officials say they would recommend that President Barack Obama veto the legislation if it reaches his desk. That’s unlikely in the current Congress, which ends next month, given that Democrats still hold a majority in the Senate. That makes the votes largely symbolic. But observers say they represent another salvo in a long-standing battle over the<a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/environment/2013/08/house-panel-subpoenas-epa-air-pollution-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">release of scientific data that underlines key regulations</a>—and a sign of battles to come once Republicans assume control of both chambers of Congress in January.One bill, approved 18 November on a mostly party-line 229 to 191 vote, would overhaul rules regarding the membership and meetings of EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB). That federally chartered body of scientists, economists, and other scholars reviews agency risk assessments and scientific documents and advises the agency on other matters. The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr1422/BILLS-113hr1422rh.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act</a> (H.R. 1422), sponsored by Representative Chris Stewart (R–UT), would require the agency to make SAB’s membership “fairly balanced,” add more public comment opportunities, require more acknowledgment of dissenting panelists’ views, bar panelists from discussing their own research, and limit nonscientific advice from the panel. “Ensuring that the [board] is balanced and transparent will help instill more confidence in the EPA’s decision making process,” Stewart <a href="http://stewart.house.gov/SAB" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">said in a statement</a>.The bill would seek to balance membership by setting a quota for state, local, and tribal government officials on SAB panels and clarify that industry experts aren’t barred from membership as long as their potential conflicts of interest are disclosed.The second bill, the <a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HR%204012_0.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Secret Science Reform Act</a> (H.R. 4012), would require that the data from any study that EPA draws upon to inform its regulations, risk assessments, and guidance documents be “reproducible” and released publicly as long as the law doesn’t forbid it. “If you’re going to make public policy, do it by public data,” said Representative David Schweikert (R–AZ), the bill’s lead sponsor and chair of the House science committee’s environmental subpanel, on the House floor on 19 November. The House approved the measure on a mostly party-line 237 to 190 vote.Trade associations in key industries—from chemicals to oil to natural gas—<a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/AAI%20Letter%20of%20Support%20for%20House%20Secret%20Science%20Bill%20HR%204012.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">support the bills</a>, saying that boosting data transparency and <a href="https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/11.18.14-hill_letter_supporting_h.r.1422_the_epa_science_advisory_board_reform_act.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">changing SAB’s composition</a> would result in more scientifically sound, and thus publicly trusted, regulations.Opponents, however, say the bills are thinly disguised efforts to make EPA’s job more difficult.For instance, the EPA SAB reform act could “turn conflict of interest on its head” by opening the door to more representation from industry scientists, says Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science and environmental advocacy group, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/113/saphr1422r20141117.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">White House statement</a>argues that the new membership requirements “could preclude the nomination of scientists with significant expertise in their fields.”Public health groups, scientists, and environmental groups warned in a <a href="http://democrats.science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.house.gov/files/documents/Public%20health%20sign-on%20letter%20--%20opposing%20HR%204012%20and%20HR%201422%20-%20FINAL.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">letter to lawmakers</a>that the bill would grind SAB to a halt by requiring an “endless loop” of public comment and responses from the panel to almost every comment. “At best, the SAB will be reduced to busy work. At worst, the SAB’s assessments will address the concerns of corporations, not the desires of citizens for science-informed regulation that protects public health,” the letter argues.The “secret science” bill could drastically cut the number of studies that EPA would be allowed to use in developing rules, the advocates’ letter argues. By requiring “reproducible” data, the bill “seems to adopt a very narrow view of scientific information solely based on laboratory experiments,” it argues, noting that many studies that EPA traditionally relies on involve modeling or analyzing real-world health data, which can be hard to replicate.H.R. 4012 could also rule out EPA’s use of other studies involving confidential health information, which can be important, critics say. And the bill’s requirements “could be used to prevent EPA from finalizing regulations until legal challenges about the legitimate withholding of certain scientific and technical information are resolved,” a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/113/saphr4012r20141117.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">White House statement</a> warns.Rosenberg argues that the real purpose of H.R. 4012 is to enable EPA critics to obtain data and turn it over to their own analysts, in order to pick apart studies they don’t like and produce findings more favorable to their views. “The problem they’re trying to fix is, they don’t like the answer” provided by certain studies, he says.Both bills, or similar versions, are likely to resurface in the new Congress.</div></div><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="views-field views-field-field-link-to-post" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Posted in <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/category/environment" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Environment</a>, <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/category/policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Policy</a>

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David Schweikert is the Republican candidate in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S.congressional_elections" title="2008 U.S. congressional elections" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2008 congressional elections</a> for the 5th Congressional District (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/az05_109.gif" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">map</a>) of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Arizona_and_the_U.S.Congress" title="Portal:Arizona and the U.S. Congress" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arizona</a>. He won the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harry_Mitchell" title="Harry Mitchell" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Harry Mitchell</a> (D-Ariz.). <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#cite_note-azrepublic-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>

David is a resident of Fountain Hills, AZ. David has known the area for many years and is a graduate of Saguaro High School. Schweikert received his MBA from the ASU WP Carey Executive Program and also holds a BA from the ASU School of Business. Prior to becoming the Maricopa Country Tresurer Schweikert represented Scottsdale and Fountain Hills in the Arizona State Legislature along with chairing the State Board of Equilization. As <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://treasurer.maricopa.gov/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Treasurer</a> of Maricopa County, David Schweikert was given the trust of the taxpayer, after leaving his postion Schweikert is now running for the U.S. House of Representitives. David and his wife Joyce live in Fountain Hills where they run a real estate business.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#2008_elections" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1 2008 elections</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Positions_and_record" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2 Positions and record</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.1 Career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.2 Energy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Abortion" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.3 Abortion</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Fiscal_Stance" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.4 Fiscal Stance</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Taxes" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.5 Taxes</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Second_Amendment" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.6 Second Amendment</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Illegal_Immigration" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.7 Illegal Immigration</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Government_Reform" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.8 Government Reform</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#War_On_Terror" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.9 War On Terror</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Victims.27_Rights" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.10 Victims' Rights</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Money_in_politics" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3 Money in politics</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Campaign_contributions" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.1 Campaign contributions</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Committees_and_Endorsements" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4 Committees and Endorsements</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Committees" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4.1 Committees</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Endorsements" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4.2 Endorsements</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">5 Contact</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6 Articles and resources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#Sources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6.2 Sources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6.3 External resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6.4 External articles</a></li>

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<h4 style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; background-image: none;">Career</h4>

David's political career started in 1991 when he served on the Arizona State legislature, representing the Scottsdale and Fountain Hills area. He served there until 1994. David has also held a position on the State Board of Equilization and most recently served as Maricopa Country Treasurer.

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David is adamant about pursuing oil shale, clean coal and natural gas as well as alternative forms of energy such as solar, wind and alternative fuels. David believes the Country's energy policy should be an “all forms all the time."

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David is pro-life and was himself an adopted child.

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David has been a fiscal conservative his entire career. David wants to push to limit the growth and size of federal government. David believes in eliminating earmarking and pork barrel spending. David will not vote to spend money we don’t have.

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David Schweikert believes that cutting taxes is fundamental in growing the economy. He will work to make the existing tax cuts permanent, push to reduce capital gains taxes, and eliminate the death tax.

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In Congress, David will oppose any bill that attempts to restrict the right of the people to keep and bear arms. He was also a prime sponsor of the Concealed Carry Law in Arizona.

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David believes in securing the border against illegal immigration, trafficking, smuggling and incursions by: finishing construction of the fence, holding companies accountable for hiring illegals, using high-tech surveillance to monitor the border, deploying additional Predator-B U.A.V's, and hiring more border patrol agents and supplementing when necessary by placing National Guard troops on the border.

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David believes in government reform through representing the people's interests, not big spending special interests.

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David will push to make sure that our intelligence agencies, military, and state and local law enforcement agencies are well equiped to fight terrorism both here and abroad.

<h4 style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; background-image: none;">Victims' Rights</h4>

David will work hard to protect victims' rights and bring balance back to the American justice system.

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This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases.

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The following is drawn from government records of campaign contributions to David Schweikert. Campaign contributions are one of the most direct conduits for influencing members of Congress. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SouceWatch:Using_congressional_campaign_contribution_information" title="SouceWatch:Using congressional campaign contribution information" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">How to use this information.</a> <crpcontribdata>cid=N00006460&cycle=2008</crpcontribdata>

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Schweikert will be assigned committees if and when he is elected to Congress. While in the Arizona State Legislature David served on the health committee and looked for new innovative ways to spend tax payer money frugally and effectively.

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David Schweikert is being endorsed by former 2008 Republican candidate for president Senator Fred Thompson as well as by Republican U.S. House Minority Leader, John Boehner. David is receiving an endorsement from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">political action committee</a> Club For Growth for his stance on low taxation and limited government. Other notable endorsements come from the National Rifle Association, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">political action committee</a>, National Vietnam & Gulf War Veterans Coalition, Arizona Right to Life, and the Arizona Medical Association.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fred_Thompson" title="Fred Thompson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Fred Thompson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">John Boehner</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Club_for_Growth" title="Club for Growth" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Club For Growth PAC</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Council for Citizns Against Government Waste PAC</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Arizona Right to Life</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Arizona Medical Association</li>

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Mail

David Schweikert for Congress

15749 E El Lago Fountain Hills, AZ 85268

E-Mail

joyce@david10.com

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S._congressional_election_dates" title="2008 U.S. congressional election dates" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2008 U.S. congressional election dates</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Arizona_and_the_U.S._Congress" title="Portal:Arizona and the U.S. Congress" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Portal:Arizona and the U.S. Congress</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-azrepublic-0" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#cite_ref-azrepublic_0-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> Wally Edge, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politickeraz.com/wallyedgeaz/2154/schweikert-survives-close-one" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Schweikert survives a close one</a>, September 3, 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> www.david08.com</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.2008racetracker.com/page/AZ-05" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2008 Race Tracker page on Arizona's 5th Congressional District</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.david08.com/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Official Schweikert for Congress website</a></li>

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans selected Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), who is on the record questioning whether humans are causing climate change, to head of the Science Committee's <a href="http://science.house.gov/subcommittee-environment-0#overlay-context=" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">environment subcommittee</a>.

Schweikert will replace Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), who moved to the House Appropriations Committee. He said he plans to use his new post to target the Obama administration's regulatory agenda.

"Too often, this Administration has tried to bypass Congress and impose its will on the American people through regulatory fiat,” Schweikert said Thursday in a statement,<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/energy-environment/195687-schweikert-to-tackle-regs-with-new-gavel" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Hill reported</a>. “We have a responsibility to provide a check-and-balance to ensure there is fairness and openness in the process and that taxpayers are not being subjected to onerous and unnecessarily burdensome rules and regulations."

A main component of the Obama administration's environmental work is new limits on power plants' greenhouse gas pollution. Schweikert has argued that the idea of man-made global warming may be "folklore."

"Understanding what part of climate change is part of a natural cycle and what part has human components is the first step," he <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2008/09/11/20080911elex-congfiveheadtohead-CP.html?nclick_check=1#ixzz2qarY1YpR" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="font-weight: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">said as a candidate in 2008</a>. "Our elected officials must be careful to react to facts and not folklore."

In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/repdavidschweikert/posts/522502667798786" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="font-weight: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Facebook post last year</a>, however, Schweikert seemed to indicate that reducing carbon dioxide emissions might be a good thing -- while bashing President Barack Obama's efforts to do so. He wrote on June 25:

<blockquote style="list-style: none; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">In light of Obama's 'climate change' speech today, I would like to REMIND him that at the time of its expiration, the Kyoto Protocol mandated that developed nations reduce their CO2 output by an average of 5.2%. Though we never ratified the Kyoto protocol, our country was able to REDUCE CO2 through new technology in the private sector, NOT top-down, economic crushing government mandates.</blockquote>

The Kyoto Protocol is the international treaty on climate change that took effect in 2004, which the United States declined to join. A significant portion of the reduction in emissions that the U.S. has achieved since then is due to rising consumption of natural gas, which is noted in a <a href="http://berc.berkeley.edu/is-the-us-about-to-accidentally-meet-kyoto-protocol-targets/" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">blog post that Schweikert linked to</a> in his post. That, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/science/earth/17emit.html?r=0" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">the recession</a>.

Schweikert will have good company in Science Committee leadership. Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/lamar-smith-global-warming-house-science_n_2200408.html" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">also a climate change denier</a>.

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<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/20/2656431/house-republicans-help-mining/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">With one week to go until a potential government shutdown, the House of Representatives moves to help mining companies bypass environmental rules.</a>

With reports that the Republican party is in a state of “<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/09/18/2646991/republican-civil-war-breaks-twitter/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">civil war</a>” over whether to shut down the government and default on the nation’s debts as part of its <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/13/tim-huelskamp-obamacare-repeal_n_3921960.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">42nd effort to defund Obamacare</a>, House Republicans are in clear agreement on at least one thing: giving mining and timber companies a sweetheart deal on publicly-owned resources and exempting them from environmental laws.

By several measures, the mining industry already enjoys the benefits of friendly laws and environmental loopholes. Under the <a href="http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/general_mining_law_of_1872" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">General Mining Law of 1872</a>, for example, mining companies pay no royalties on the gold, silver, copper, and other taxpayer-owned minerals that they extract from taxpayer-owned public lands. And the industry is <a href="http://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/FACTSHEET_Mining-industry-exploits-clean-water-act-loopholes.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">exempt from portions</a> of environmental laws like the Clean Water Act.

And yet, these facts didn’t stop National Mining Association — which spent nearly <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000308" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">$5 million on lobbying</a> last year alone — CEO Hal Quinn from <a href="http://www.eenews.net/eedaily/stories/1059987504/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">complaining</a> that the industry:

…remain[s] burdened by an antiquated and duplicative permitting system that discourages investment and jeopardizes the growth of downstream industries, related jobs and technological innovation that depend on a secure and reliable mineral supply chain.

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One of the bills, which will likely be up for a vote next week, is the <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr687rh/pdf/BILLS-113hr687rh.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2013</a> (H.R. 687). It would require the U.S. Forest Service to trade publicly-owned forest lands that contain a major copper deposit for certain private lands owned by the Resolution Copper Mining company, a subsidiary of <a href="http://resolutioncopper.com/about-us/the-company/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">multinational mining conglomerates</a> Rio Tinto and BHP-Billiton.

The bill not only gives away taxpayer-owned copper deposits to a private company, but it also <a href="http://azstarnet.com/business/delay-of-environmental-study-crux-of-resolution-copper-debate-opponents/article_ac1ab2fc-a4c6-5ed3-a077-3416f7fbf9e9.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">bypasses</a> the standard requirement that the federal government analyze the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of land exchanges under the National Environmental Policy Act.

H.R. 687 is strongly opposed by rock climbers whose <a href="http://azstarnet.com/business/delay-of-environmental-study-crux-of-resolution-copper-debate-opponents/article_ac1ab2fc-a4c6-5ed3-a077-3416f7fbf9e9.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">access to the recreation areas</a> would be lost by the privatization, as well as <a href="http://www.eacourier.com/news/tribe-kirkpatrick-clash-over-resolution-copper/article_0b871794-1ca2-11e3-bfef-0019bb2963f4.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Native American tribes</a> who have sacred sites on the land.

The second bill, the <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr761rh/pdf/BILLS-113hr761rh.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2013</a> (H.R. 761) passed the House on Wednesday night and gives the mining industry several new shortcuts around environmental protections. It would allow federal agencies, for example, to declare that a proposed mining project does not constitute “<a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/sslesinger/house_republicans_riding_rough.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">a major federal action</a>” and therefore permit applications would not need to be subjected to environmental review and public comment. It also places an <a href="http://naturalresources.house.gov/legislation/hr761/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">arbitrary deadline</a> of 30 months on any permitting decisions regardless of the size of the project or controversy.

Mining interests aren’t the only ones getting a great deal in the House this week. The chamber today is also debating the <a href="http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20130916/CPRT-113-HPRT-RU00-HR1526.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act</a> (H.R. 1526) which would — for the first time ever — legislatively mandate levels of logging in national forests. The Obama administration has threatened to veto the bill, saying that it would not only “undermine appropriate management and stewardship of these lands which belong to all Americans,” but would “<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/113/saphr1526r_20130918.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">increase litigation risk</a>.”

Jessica Goad is the Manager of Research and Outreach for the Public Lands Project at the Center for American Progress.

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113TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 687

[Report No. 113–167]

To facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral resources in southeast Arizona

by authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-Federal

land, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Mr. GOSAR (for himself, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Mr. SALMON, Mr. SCHWEIKERT,

and Mr. FRANKS of Arizona) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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9. David Schweikert, R-AZ: Perhaps the poster child for this list is Rep. Schweikert, who was asked a question about the health insurance mandate provision in the Affordable Care Act, and whether he thought it was fair that prior to the ACA someone could incur medical expenses but not pay for them, raising the cost of health care for everyone else. He responded, “You have the right as an American to be dumb.” And he is fully exercising his rights.  small words

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<li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Voted YES on opening Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling. (May 2011)</li>

<li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Voted YES on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. (Apr 2011)</li>

<li style="text-align: left;">Signed the No Climate Tax Pledge by <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note-AFP.asp" style="">AFP</a>. (Nov 2010)</li>

<li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Cap-and-trade has no impact on global temperatures. (Jul 2010)</li>

<li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Explore proven energy reserves & keep energy prices low. (Jul 2010)</li>

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David Schweikert is the Republican candidate in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S.congressional_elections" title="2008 U.S. congressional elections" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2008 congressional elections</a> for the 5th Congressional District (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/az05_109.gif" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">map</a>) of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Arizona_and_the_U.S.Congress" title="Portal:Arizona and the U.S. Congress" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arizona</a>. He won the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harry_Mitchell" title="Harry Mitchell" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Harry Mitchell</a> (D-Ariz.). <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#cite_note-azrepublic-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>

David is a resident of Fountain Hills, AZ. David has known the area for many years and is a graduate of Saguaro High School. Schweikert received his MBA from the ASU WP Carey Executive Program and also holds a BA from the ASU School of Business. Prior to becoming the Maricopa Country Tresurer Schweikert represented Scottsdale and Fountain Hills in the Arizona State Legislature along with chairing the State Board of Equilization. As <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://treasurer.maricopa.gov/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" xmlns:data="data">Treasurer</a> of Maricopa County, David Schweikert was given the trust of the taxpayer, after leaving his postion Schweikert is now running for the U.S. House of Representitives. David and his wife Joyce live in Fountain Hills where they run a real estate business.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Schweikert#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a>

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