Jack Kingston: “Why is that money there? What is the interest of the Speaker with American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands? What…”

“Why is that money there? What is the interest of the Speaker with American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands? What is that about? Why would that be in a jobs bill? To study private sector profits? It makes no sense. You know, our national debt right now is $10.6 trillion. We spend $450 billion each year just paying interest on the debt. That's almost as much as what we pay for the entire Department of Defense. We are letting the generation that's in charge rob from the next generation. That would be our kids. You know, Democrats and Republicans have done a lousy job of controlling spending and, certainly, as a Republican, I want to say we have not done the job we should have done. But our worst deficit when we were in charge of Congress was $412 billion. This quarter, this quarter alone, the Democrats will exceed $1 trillion in deficit spending. Ladies and gentlemen, we need to go back to the table. The Republican bill provides twice the jobs at half the cost.”