Jack Kingston

you know one thing that this Congress is not doing is sitting down and really trying to figure out where the Democrats and the Republicans agree on this energy challenge. Eliot Engel and I 2 years ago sat down and wrote a bill called the…

Democrats like foreign energy. I don't know why they like foreign energy because if we are dependent on foreign energy, since we import 60 percent of it now, it is a national security risk. You have to ask what area of land have the…

I was privileged enough to go with a number of Congressmen two weeks ago to the Middle East and went to Saudi Arabia. We had some great meetings over there. We met with the Minister of Petroleum and many of the other people who are…

You mean to tell me that the American middle class is continuing to suffer with record high gas prices, prices that have nearly doubled since the Democrat regime took over Congress, and we are still not dealing with it today? The reason we…

You have the audacity to come to us and tell us to drill more and yet you won't even unlock your own lands. What kind of hypocrisy is that? Instead, you know what the Democrats do? They make it easier to sue OPEC. Well, that sounds good…

what I would say is that these things may or may not be legitimate expenditures, but if they went through a subcommittee and a full committee and they're on a freestanding piece of legislation, that is the proper process of Congress. And…

I'm touched with the bipartisan support of the Democrat Party that suddenly when the Bush administration asks for something, it's like that, they get it. I'm really impressed with that. Did you get a formal letter from OMB on the census…

I rise to oppose the rule, because there are so many amendments that could have improved this bill and saved the taxpayers money, but they were ignored by the Rules Committee, not allowed on the floor of the House, which isn't totally…

Again, Mr. Speaker, this bill is thrust upon Members of the House who will not have read it. In fact, I will take a poll right now. Is there anybody who has read, there are a lot of Members of Congress on this floor, have any of you read…

The leadership of the committee has said that the grain standard works fairly well. But I want to point out that this took 7 years, so maybe the reason the grain standard is working so well is that it took a long time and lots of input to…

Well, I think, though, that when you're talking about spending, you have to look at everything. And when you have such a large portion on mandatory spending, and I think of it in terms of automatic spending, and I understand that Social…

That's correct. So, here we are, the first day back basically voting on anything of substance, we've already spent $20 billion over a budget that's only 3 weeks old. Now, you had mentioned discretionary spending, and I want to make sure…

back in January, a number of Members of the House voted against a surge in Iraq which the President had promoted. Well, although that vote passed the House, it failed in the Senate, and we know the surge did take place and the surge has…

Sid Flowers, John Sidney Flowers, was a good friend of mine. He was a friend of many people, as he had served in office for so many years in the State of Georgia. His wife, Nan, is a friend; his daughters Kay and Darcy have been friends…

last week the Capitol hosted a display of electric cars, hybrids like the Toyota Prius and various generations. And there was one car that got my attention. It was an Auto-Cycle. It was a one-man car. It would go 75 miles an hour. And the…

Public Law 15, or the McCarran-Ferguson Act, says that the States will be in charge of insurance, not the Federal Government. Therefore, when a company comes into a State or tries to leave a State, the State insurance commissioner actually…

I was in the insurance business for 13 years, worked strictly on commission. I was a broker, which meant I worked for the buyer, helping them find the best quality insurance in the insurance marketplace. I also represent the entire coast…

Let me say this, we were not in the Federal flood insurance program until recent times. Case in point, I used to sell flood insurance; but when the Federal Government grew into it, the private sector withdrew from the market.

Let me restate. Right now it is a fact homeowners and lenders are having trouble getting flood insurance and windstorm insurance in the areas where there are lots of floods and lots of windstorms, coastal areas. This allows them to get it…

Let me say this, I would love to continue this dialogue and that's why we wanted some amendments so that we could try to work out some of these differences. But in your great State, in Massachusetts, in Boston or in Savannah, Georgia…

I do believe that you have set a great message, and Mr. Taylor is a tireless advocate for coastal property. But at the same time, I do think that the McCarran-Ferguson Act gives the State insurance commissioners a pretty big hammer here…

But am I correct that when my lender requires me to carry the flood insurance, then I'm also going to FEMA for the wind storm insurance?

Because as I understand it, Trent Lott lost a family home that was like 100 years old or something in Mississippi. There was no Federal insurance program of any nature when that house was built, which is my point for Boston and for…

If they want to make a profit from it, then we should not let them take a walk from it. They will figure out a way to do it.

Well, if the gentleman will let me ask, and I'll yield back to you, but where in your policy does it say they won't get the discount on the wind coverage? Because I understand what you're doing on the flood. But it appears that wind is…