Jack Kingston: “as my colleagues know, yesterday the Democrats had a little love fest over in the Rotunda to talk about their agenda…”

“as my colleagues know, yesterday the Democrats had a little love fest over in the Rotunda to talk about their agenda, and I was interested in this. I like to watch Democrats. After all, they are very interesting people when we really study them. And of course so much of their agenda they have co-opted from the Republicans. Our best agenda, for example, balancing the budget, paying down the debt, excellence in education, ``S'' for saving Social Security, ``T'' for lowering taxes. The Republican's best agenda; that is what the Democrats are using. But then they could not stop there. They had to put in something for the whacky fringe left element of their policy, spending 38 percent of the Social Security dollars. That is right. They are bragging, hey, we are going to save only 62 percent of Social Security, using 32 percent for non-Social Security items. The whacky fringe left also is pushing busting the budget caps. Of course, the President, he did give has word, but so much for that. Then federalizing public education. I am sorry that the school districts in their areas did not do the responsible things and build school buildings, but I do not want the Federal Government coming into my district and telling us how to build, how to educate our children. Mr. Speaker, we do not need Washington bureaucrats; we need local control of education.”