Jack Kingston: “it is a great pleasure to be with you tonight and discuss the many issues that are facing the 105th Congress. One of the…”

“it is a great pleasure to be with you tonight and discuss the many issues that are facing the 105th Congress. One of the things that we will be voting on very soon is the supplemental appropriations bill. That is a fancy word for a bill designed to send aid to the folks who have been victims of flooding in the Midwest. It also funds the continuation of troops in Bosnia. There are a lot of us who want to get our troops home from Bosnia. But at this point we still need to fund the ones that are there, and we need to have the debate about getting them home also. But the two purposes of this funding bill are emergency for the flood victims and emergency for Bosnia. Politics is politics, and we cannot pass a bill around here without something totally unrelated being attached to it. That is always going to be the case, and that is the case with this bill that we are considering. One of the nonemergency items which many people in this House have supported is increased funding for WIC, which is the Women, Infants and Children Program. It is a milk formula program, and the program does a lot of good.…”