But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

In 2006 he cosponsored H. Citizens Against Government Waste considered him a "Taxpayer Hero". He served in the Arizona Air National Guard from 1969 to 1975 and was a lawyer before becoming a special counsel to the Arizona state House Republican caucus 1991–92.

Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district serving from 1995 until 2011. S.