Jack Kingston: “I appreciate our friend, the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Taylor), for advancing the cause of fiscal restraint…”

“I appreciate our friend, the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Taylor), for advancing the cause of fiscal restraint, something that we do need to do in this House. And it is interesting, particularly since the Democrats are right now promoting an expansion of welfare in an unfunded way, and proposing to increase spending on welfare $3.5 billion, and that is to give a tax rebate to people who have not paid taxes. It is an idea that is ironic since 197 of them voted against it originally in May 2001, but they all seem to want to spend more regardless of what our budgets are doing. I have just come from an appropriations meeting. And what is interesting about that is that on the appropriations bills, we have 13 of them, I believe, Mr. Speaker, every bill, it is particularly interesting since every one of our 13 appropriations bills, no matter what we propose in the Republican Party, the Democrats make a counterproposal to spend more. And I realize that my friend, the gentleman of Mississippi (Mr. Taylor), is in the minority of the Democratic Party where they do wake up in the morning and worry about spending. And I am glad that he does because I share his concerns about it. But I just point out that the majority of his party, when it comes to spending bills, wants to spend more.”