Jack Kingston

But when we throw around the term 'free lunch,' we've got to remember there's no free lunch here.

If you give me the tools and maybe get out of my way a little bit, give me two or three years, let me come back and show you some things.

I continue to be a critic of that inasmuch as it is deficit spending and often is putting broadband in places there is not a problem because the private sector was doing it.

You know, we keep talking about free lunches. I think we ought to quit calling them free lunches. It's tax-subsidized.

I hope this Administration is successful on many of the things that they want to accomplish for a better America.

If we are going to be serious about deficits, we have to look someplace and this was one place to look.

I feel that so much of our problem is that we have this centralized Washington mandate on so many of these things.

I believe in it, and I believe in States as laboratories. I absolutely do.

I give the President credit for PAYGO. I am glad he brought it up. We Republicans ignored it. It was the wrong thing to do.

I think these numbers are just going to show there comes a time when we actually do have to have meaningful spending freezes and do have to have real PAYGO.

I regret that we, on a bipartisan basis, did not embrace some of those ideas and add to them.

We are faced with some serious issues relative to the debt and deficit which we have to address.

If we want to help children, we have to make sure we have a sound fiscal policy.

One of the inadvertent beneficiaries of BCAP is the American taxpayers are subsidizing European fuel, and in this economy, I think that that is something that we really do not want to do.

We Republicans spent too much money. We had 12 years of deficits.

I want to say the concept of PAYGO sounds great, but it is an absolute fig leaf when you look at the practicality of it only applying to 2 percent of the budget. It's just not a genuine proposal. But I want to say this: I think it is good…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chairman, when I first came to Congress in 1993, we had computers but we did not have Internet. In fact, if it wasn't for Al Gore maybe we still wouldn't have it. I don't need to bring that up. But…

I have spent so many wonderful hours at the Rocky Mountain National Park. My family has been going there off and on for nearly 25 years about once a year, and I can tell you, there is not a greater playground in the United States of…

I wanted to rise in support of this resolution, but I also wanted to commend those who are involved in the rescue effort and the international communities, the governments, and the nongovernmental organizations, as well as the private…

I sometimes find serving in Congress greatly baffling because here we are, while many, many Americans, millions of Americans are unemployed, and we're actually going to debate a bill on if we should start working at 9 a.m. Why are we…

Okay. Well, I want to say this to my friend from Colorado, and I want to say this to my friend from North Carolina: where I am very frustrated is that here we have this huge bill. As I understand it--and I know the gentleman supports…

several weeks ago, when the Democrats shut the Republican Party out of negotiations and from having any input on this alleged stimulus package, the big spending package, $836 billion, the Republicans had their own set of hearings. They…

Why is that money there? What is the interest of the Speaker with American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands? What is that about? Why would that be in a jobs bill? To study private sector profits? It makes no sense. You know, our…

I certainly am going to support this bill. All I have to say is here we are with high unemployment, with economic disaster happening, and yet we are spending time debating a bill which is going to pass by 435 votes. It is a good bill. It…

We can do better. And I would like to work with the Democrats and the president, as would all the other Republicans, and try to make a better craft, a better package than what we're looking at today.