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Jack Kingston: “Mr. Speaker, what we are trying to do, what we have been talking about tonight is having a good welfare system, one that…”

On the recordMay 22, 1996
Mr. Speaker, what we are trying to do, what we have been talking about tonight is having a good welfare system, one that helps those who need a helping hand but puts able-bodied recipients to work; a criminal justice system that gets the thugs off the streets so that American families can walk down the streets without having to look over their shoulder and be scared; having a budget that is balanced so that interest rates go down, having the waste cut out of it. Above all, changing this Washington bureaucracy, rocking it, changing it permanently so that we can have a government that is limited and one that responds.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia
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Discussing welfare reform, criminal justice, and government efficiency.

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