Jack Kingston: “We have 163 different Federal job training programs. We have 240 different miscellaneous education programs that the…”

“We have 163 different Federal job training programs. We have 240 different miscellaneous education programs that the Federal Government funds, 30 different nutrition programs. There is clearly room to consolidate. Yet, if you picked up the headlines and heard that Fox or Kingston moved to cut 25 different job training programs, people back home would think you have gone berserk, but yet you still have some 135 other job training programs left. I think what Congress is doing is trying to set an example that, in eliminating 25 committees, we are taking this real serious. I was a member of two of the committees that were eliminated. Last year I served on the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. In the coastal area of the district I represent we have a lot of marine issues, shipping issues, dredge issues, Corps of Engineers, and so forth. However, that committee has been eliminated, those functions rolled into other committees that were duplicating what the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries were doing.”