Jack Kingston: “you know, Sunday is Mothers' Day. I do not remember my mother in the 40 years that I have been her son, worrying about…”

“you know, Sunday is Mothers' Day. I do not remember my mother in the 40 years that I have been her son, worrying about the Federal budget on Mother's Day. I just do not see ourselves sitting around the house and ringing, ``Oh, my goodness, the Democrats are not going to get their way in Congress. Mother's Day is ruined.'' You know, my mom, my family, we do just fine without the Federal Government running our lives, and that is what the American people want: less Federal Government intervention in the family. The families of America want the Federal Government out of the picture. The best way to protect the family is to make sure that we have a balanced budget so that there will be a Government that is not totally bankrupt in our future, which my mother's grandchildren and their grandchildren will enjoy. You know, a great political campaign was run on this slogan: ``If not us, who; if not now, when; if not this, what?'' The Democrats' answer to that question, ``Well, if not us, somebody; if not now, someday; and if not this, we do not know.'' You know, it is time to come to the table with specifics. Are you going to balance the budget, or are you going to sit here and scare everybody in America that the sky is falling? Let us get responsible, let us enter the debate with the true spirit of facts and not rhetoric.”