Jack Kingston: “I have a constituent who wrote, Kenneth Richardson, actually from Atlanta, and he came up with this figure. He said that…”

“I have a constituent who wrote, Kenneth Richardson, actually from Atlanta, and he came up with this figure. He said that every minute in the U.S. Government, under their calculations, we waste $2,152,207, and they show what our interest is and what our fraud and waste is in various government programs year in and year out. That is a scary thought. He said, ``What are you going to do about it, because every minute you are costing the taxpayers $2.1 million.'' There are so many things that we have done in the appropriations process that, even though the Senate did not pass the balanced budget amendment, it is clear the American people want a balanced budget. So I think the number one thing that we are doing is every bill that we pass, 13 different appropriations bills, we are moving to a balanced budget. There are 163 different Federal job training programs. Sitting in on the hearings, many of them do the exact same thing. You cannot get the agencies to agree to consolidate, but if you sit there and you are not involved in the program, they sound like they are doing just exactly the same. I would submit to my colleagues that out of 163 different Federal jobs programs, certainly we can combine many, many of them.”