Jack Kingston

I find today a lot of questions, a lot of unanswered questions, and a lot of half decent debate going on. I wonder, first of all, why we didn't bring this bill through committee. Certainly if it is a good idea, it would have been something…

I wanted to raise one premise that no one has talked about, and that is this blind belief in everything the 9/11 committee says, and apparently individual Members as well. The 9/11 Commission was a bipartisan group of good people, some who…

I am glad to be here, and I am glad that the Democrats are interested in fiscal discipline. That is a good thing. It is a good bipartisan debate. But there are three flaws in the Democrat PAYGO approach that I think are very important…

At one time the United States of America overwhelmingly was an agrarian country, but today only 2 percent of the population are farmers. Yet those 2 percent feed all 100 percent of us and a great portion of the rest of the world as well…

as my friend Mr. Engel from New York knows, gas prices are coming down. I am glad about it. A friend of mine, a son, actually filled up last weekend for $1.89 a gallon. But Mr. Engel and I know that the pressure upon the gas supply brought…

I thank Mr. Price for his cosponsorship of this, and also, I wanted to acknowledge my friends Mr. Scott and Mr. Gingrey for their cosponsorship, but I also wanted to say, many thanks to my friend John Lewis, the lead sponsor of this. When…

I wanted to point out to my friend from Missouri that in order to become States in the United States of America, Arizona and Utah had to change their own State constitutions to recognize marriage as a union between one man and one woman in…

I want to point out that, in fact, under H.J. Res. 88, State legislatures can allow same-sex benefits in the unions. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Pence). (Mr. PENCE asked and was given…

I also will submit into the Record at this point some groups who want to go on the record as being in support of this. Coalitions for America, Washington, DC, July 17, 2006. Dear Representative, I want you to know that I am in fu11 support…

if I can ask the gentleman from New York, I have one more speaker. Then we are ready to close.

I yield 3 minutes to the former attorney general of California, the distinguished Dan Lungren.

I would invite the previous speaker, my friend, to watch one of the 527 ads that are being run against Mrs. Musgrave. If she wants to see hateful speech, and one of the most hideous hateful acts that I have witnessed on any Member of…

I rise to close and I just want to split the time between Mr. Murphy and Mrs. Musgrave. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murphy).

I thank Mr. Hobson for yielding; and I wanted to thank you and Mr. Rogers for your leadership and Mr. Wolf for working together to come up with a suitable solution to this or at least a step in the right direction. But I have been very…

I want to say this: as a member of the Appropriations Committee, I am proud that this year the House Appropriations Committee has eliminated 95 different programs and greatly reduced the number of Member projects and earmarks. In each year…

in 2003, we spent $103 billion buying oil from nondemocratic countries, such countries as Iran, Syria and Venezuela, hardly American allies by any stretch, and, in fact, people who in some ways are funding the war against us in the war on…

in 2003, our country was in a very tough recession. George Bush took a bold step to reduce taxes. Now, the Democrats did not like to have tax cuts, because they like to spend your money, because they actually believe that the wisdom in…

I wanted to call attention that the House Appropriations Committee, working on a bipartisan basis, is ahead of schedule for this year. And although that is what we should be doing, it does seem that sometimes in Washington things break…

I thank Mr. Sessions for yielding to me, and, Madam Speaker, I wanted to talk about two elements of this bill that I hope we will have a chance to vote on, and I hope they will be ruled germane to the bill. One of them is the Nathan Deal…

well, I had an opportunity to speak to Mr. Portman a few minutes ago and just pled the case real briefly with the promise of a follow-up phone call. I do want to thank you for all the harbor dredging that you have helped us with, Mr…

I thank the chairman from Ohio for yielding to me. I wanted to speak tonight, Mr. Chairman, about the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway, which stretches 161 miles from the South Carolina border to the Florida border going through the 1st…

I want to say this, and I appreciate what the gentleman from Arizona is doing, because I think that we all need to be accountable for anything that is in the bill or anything we vote on. One of my gripes with the other body is that they…

I will yield 10 seconds to the gentleman from Texas if 10 seconds will help him.

I want to urge a ``no'' vote and say that we are going to join Mr. Paul in fighting a new bureaucracy and also to weed out an excessive burden on small farmers and too much information to the Federal Government. That is why we have delayed…

in 1995 President Clinton, led by his environmental hard-core left-wing friends, vetoed drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve. Now, had he signed that bill in 1995, which had passed the Senate and the House, we would…