Jack Kingston: “It is sad when you think France was the country home to the great Lafayette who fought so hard for American freedom and…”

“It is sad when you think France was the country home to the great Lafayette who fought so hard for American freedom and whose portrait hangs on the floor of this Chamber. And yet look at the modern Frenchmen. Boy, have they strayed from the love of freedom. To them security and safety is paramount among anything. And, unfortunately, you do not see France really being a world leader anymore. You see France being a world critic. But there are a lot of French companies that are doing business in America who are suffering, and there are a lot more who are going to hear a lot more in the future, because I think before the Department of Defense issues any more contracts to French companies it will have to go through a lot of congressional scrutiny. Let me ask you this: In terms of the economy right now, one of the things we want to do is create a lot of jobs as possible. And I am glad that in the House we have been working on a good domestic agenda and we have got a good jobs package that is coming up. And I am going to be supporting that. It has a lot of different elements in it to give growth to our economy, but there is a child tax credit, increasing the child tax credit to a thousand dollars. Now, the gentleman is single, but I have four children and I can tell you that really means a lot to the families of this country. Children are very, very expensive. You have to buy washers and dryers. You buy tennis shoes. They lose tennis shoes. You buy a book bag. They wear it out.”