Jack Kingston: “Let me give you a statistic. The reason why I wanted to mention this is because I want to contrast the 103d Congress to…”

“Let me give you a statistic. The reason why I wanted to mention this is because I want to contrast the 103d Congress to the 104th Congress that the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox] is a Member of. In the 103d Congress, before the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Gingrich] and the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey] started running this House, 95.7 percent of all witnesses at the congressional hearings advocated more spending. Only 0.7 percent were for less spending, and that is a statistic from the National Center for Public Policy Research. So now, I say to the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox], you were not in that environment 2 years ago. Do you think we are moving toward balancing the budget?”