Jack Kingston: “Let me claim back my time for a minute just to underscore your point. The Pentagon had to report as missing two $4…”

“Let me claim back my time for a minute just to underscore your point. The Pentagon had to report as missing two $4 million aircraft engines, two $850,000 tugboats, and one $1 million missile launcher. Anybody seen the missile launcher? We are looking for one missile launcher, $1 million worth. And the tugboats, the missile launcher blew up the tugboats when they put the aircraft engine in it, apparently. It is absurd. Erroneous Medicare payments waste over $20 billion annually. It is ridiculous. One example that I think is absurd, in Washington, D.C., which is largely funded by the Federal Government, they appointed a group to find jobs for people who are on welfare. This group had no employment placement experience at all. They got a contract, this is Federal dollars we are talking about, $6.6 million, to place 1,500 people. One year later they had spent $1 million and placed 30 people. I think the folks in Colorado would run you out on a rail if you said you could not find waste in government, as I know the people in Georgia would do to me, and most Members of Congress.”