Jack Kingston: “That is about $85 million. Now, if I as a member of the Committee on Appropriations was asked by the chairman, the…”

“That is about $85 million. Now, if I as a member of the Committee on Appropriations was asked by the chairman, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), ``Kingston, you got $85 million you can spend in your district,'' how would you do it? Would you go out and buy a bridge, would you build something for the government, a new monument? Heck, no. What you would do is spread it out as much as possible to the middle class working families in your district, and that would be one of the greatest appropriations I could bring home to the First District. So this vote tomorrow I will have the opportunity to return to my district $85 million for the local economy, for the local jobs, for the taxpayers. As the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Weller) has pointed out, tuition, new tires, home mortgages. That is a lot of money. I can only think of what $85 million will mean to coastal Georgia. Also, I will feel a lot better that they are spending that money, rather than the United States Congress spending it.”