Jack Kingston

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…

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?

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.

I rise to oppose this bill. As much as anything, I want to say the children's health care bill, you would think would get a little more dignity in the process around here. This is a 299-page bill which we received, ``we,'' minority…

60 years ago President Harry Truman, through the National Security Act of 1947, created the United States Air Force and ended a 40-year association with the U.S. Army. This move signaled the dawning of a new age and placed airpower in its…

On this subject, the gentleman from Alabama and the gentlewoman from Connecticut and I have spoken about the fires we have had in south Georgia and the fires we have had in north Florida and Mr. Boyd's district to the tune of 580,000…

One of the amendments that we have been working on in this bill is the insistence that those who sell or contract to the Federal Government use Social Security verification. There's a program called the Basic Pilot Program, and we have…

I wanted to say what we are talking about here is if a business goes and gets a loan, then the government, because it is a government loan, turns around then and basically dictates what they have to pay, and what they have to pay is a…

I want to say this is a major policy change. That is why we are here debating it. It is unfortunate we don't have a full Chamber. But the reason that I offer this amendment is because I think we should have the floor engaged on it, and we…

I want to, first of all, start off by complimenting the Chair of the committee. We have had a number of hearings this year. We've had a lot of great oversight opportunities. I look forward to more. We've thoroughly reviewed this bill, and…

Mr. Chairman, I am happy that the Chair is accepting this amendment, but I would like to speak on it as an opportunity to speak about cutting government spending. Though it's just $50,500, that's far more than the median income in my…

Members of the House, and my friend John Lewis, you are correct. His father was my State senator and John Barrow's State senator for 38 years. He was a very well-respected Democrat. We all liked him a lot. But he sure raised his son the…

What this amendment does, Mr. Chairman, is say that if you sell or contract or do business with the Federal Government, then you need to be part of the Social Security verification project known as the Basic Pilot. And the Basic Pilot…

I just want to say as a member of the Appropriations Committee now going on 14 years, I remember several years ago when Congressman David Skaggs of Boulder, Colorado, offered an amendment in the committee which reinstituted the War Powers…

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…

in 2004, we spent $103 billion buying oil from nondemocratic countries, countries such as Iran, Venezuela and Russia, and the list goes on and on. Indeed, we are funding both sides in the war on terrorism, because every time we send money…

you know, one of the questions that I never hear asked and certainly don't hear answered by those who want to pull out of Iraq, like Harry Reid, who says the war is already lost, I have a question for him and others who say that the war is…

I thank the chairman. We just heard from the majority leader that this bill fully funds the troops. He is correct, it fully funds the troops; but it doesn't freely fund the troops. It is like giving a soldier a brand-new uniform and then…

I met with the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq today, and he said, in fact, the surge is working. And maybe he has a view that might be suspect by some. But I have also spent a lot of time this week looking at a report of indexes in Iraq put…

I think that we have to sustain this veto today. I think it's the right thing to do, because I think we need to go back to the drawing board on this. Number one, the President does have the constitutionally defined duty to fight wars, to…

in 2004, the United States of America spent $103 billion buying oil from non-democratic countries, such countries as Venezuela, as Iran, as Russia, and even ones who are our allies like Saudi Arabia, where some of that money finds its way…

I want to say this: We have had a lot of good, sincere debates in the Defense Subcommittee of Appropriations, but one of the things that, in our honest disagreement about, that we have not talked about as much is the effects that the surge…

Let me talk to you, for the $23 billion extra that are not related to the war but are on this bill, designed to bring in more people to support it, this is what it includes: avian flu, $969 million. We have already spent, I believe, $5.6…

Something curious is that the Speaker of the House said we need to get out of Iraq and go to Afghanistan where the real war on terrorism is. It is kind of scary to think that someone who is third in line to the President would have that…

I want to read you this statement by the Speaker of the House, third in line for the President, March 19. This is Nancy Pelosi talking, ``When we do this, when we transition, when we change the mission, when we redeploy the troops, build…