Jack Kingston: “I offer this amendment to bring something to the Members' attention that I think is very important. We are about to…”

“I offer this amendment to bring something to the Members' attention that I think is very important. We are about to create a fourth building for the House of Representatives. We have Cannon, we have Rayburn, we have Longworth. We are about to put on another 200,000-square-foot building. I think you should know about it, and I think we deserve a vote on it. Number one, this is an earmark. Now, we have been talking weeks and weeks and months and months about transparency and ending earmarks. Yet if you will look in the report on page 20, there is a $16 million earmark for a new House office building. There is no explanation of the project, no total cost, there have been no hearings and no oversight, and it is not in the Democrat budget. It was not requested by the Architect of the Capitol, and, yet, it's in the bill. Now, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, could be an earmark. That's where we are on this. Number two, I think Members have the right to vote on a fourth office building.”