Jack Kingston: “we have tried to revise the way we do business in Congress. Everybody is excited about getting out early tonight. We…”

“we have tried to revise the way we do business in Congress. Everybody is excited about getting out early tonight. We have done a lot of things to revise and change the status quo in Congress. And this freshman class and this new majority has really just rebuilt the way we do business. As Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Pat Roberts says, "The status quo doesn't live in Washington, D.C. anymore." One of the things we did early on is pass a balanced budget amendment in the House. Now, the United States' other body has not seen fit to pass the balanced budget amendment yet, but in the House of Representatives, we are living under the philosophy that we did pass the balanced budget. It is the intent of the American people to balance the budget and all of our appropriations bills are moving us in the direction of having a balanced budget by the year 2002. Now, a lot of people ask me why are you waiting seven years? And unfortunately it does appear that there are so many programs, it is so complicated when you are spending $1.4 trillion, that you have to go about these things slowly.”