Jack Kingston: “let me say this to my friend from New Jersey. If he truly believes that information, which obviously his speech writer…”

“let me say this to my friend from New Jersey. If he truly believes that information, which obviously his speech writer was inhaling when he wrote, then I would like to challenge him here and now for a debate on the environment on the House floor. Usually during special hours when the Democrats have the floor, they do not yield to Republicans. I will do it on my own hour to debate such outrageous fantasy about cuts in the environment. The fact is we have a $5 trillion debt. The Republican Party is trying to put sanity and commonsense reforms both in environmental legislation and in all government legislation. I think it is very important to cut out the rhetoric and get back to the fact that the children in America, a baby born today, owes $187,000 over the next 75 years just in interest on the national debt. It is time for the Democratic Party to quit hiding its head inside the sand, quit coming out with the partisan demagoguery and face the real problem of trying to balance the budget and have commonsense reforms in government. I hope my friend will debate me.”