Jack Kingston

If we have the Edwards-Kerry trial lawyer ticket, we probably will not have any serious medical liability reform, would we?

As the gentleman talks to physicians, if someone said, name the top three problems physicians are faced with right now, would malpractice be one of them?

I wanted to rise tonight to talk a little bit about the upcoming election, which I understand is on everybody's minds these days. It is interesting, Mr. Speaker, that we are in a position in America now that, with 50 States, the…

This bill does have a lot of good things in it. It includes one thing that I did not mention, that we are asking the Architect of the Capitol to contract out the management of the Capitol power plant as a private entity. We are doing that…

So unless we address the frivolous medical liability suits in our country, the cost of medicine will skyrocket and the availability is going to shrink?

And at the same time blocked the energy bill that would have given us more affordable energy in alternative energy sources, fuel cell, hydrogen cell research and a lot of good stuff. He helped block that bill because the travelers did not…

I rise in opposition to the Nussle budget reform proposal, but I do so with great respect for the Committee on the Budget and his leadership on that, and I want to say that this is the proper discussion and a discussion which we should be…

Mr. Speaker, I wanted to put in my comments on this very good debate here, and it is a debate that is good, because it shows clashing two philosophies: one of higher taxes for more spending, versus lower taxes for more private sector…

last week on the evening news, Dan Rather, nicknamed ``Rather Biased'' by those of us who are conservative or those of us who just like fair reporting in general, spent 2 minutes reporting a story about 1,300 layoffs in Ohio. That…

I first heard about Ronald Reagan in probably 1970, when Joan Baez, on my Woodstock album, referred to the Governor of California as Ron Ray Gun. And this was a young person, so I thought if Joan Baez is against him, it is probably a good…

effective June 1, each senior on Medicare who would like one could get a Medicare prescription drug discount card. This card will be good for about a 20 percent discount in most local pharmacies. What the senior could do is dial…

the prescription drug benefit addition to Medicare, which was passed by the Republican Congress, Republican Senate, and signed by the Republican President, mostly over Democrat objections, has four aspects we need to remember: Number one…

I just wanted to touch base on this amendment and speak against the substitute. The reason I want to do that is because the substitute actually increases taxes on small businesses in order to get to their tax credit. But more importantly…

I want to say a few remarks about our great friend and departing parliamentarian. If Members think about the world we live in today and all the technology and all the feats of engineering, we take so much for granted. We get in our cars…

I want to talk about this as a former insurance agent. I sold property and casualty insurance to small businesses all over Georgia before I came to Congress. I was not in the health care business, but quite frequently my clients would come…

the Democrats are proud of saying, which they say often, that they oppose the war, but support the troops. That is kind of like saying the tank is not empty, but the car is out of gas. It just does not make any sense. How do you support…

I think the gentleman has been a great champion of tax relief in many respects, and certainly I have a lot of admiration for him. My support today is for the marriage tax penalty relief. But I would love to see us pass this legislation in…

Columbus did not discover the trade route, but I am glad he made the journey. We did not find the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which we were so sure were there. Even John Edwards and John Kerry, Bill Clinton, and many of the…

last week the leading Democrat Presidential nominee called the Bush administration a bunch of crooks and liars. Not one single Democrat stood up to say, ``Mr. Kerry, you've gone too far.'' An apology is in order. And now this week the…

At the same time, I think we need to control the rhetoric. Last night, the leading Democrat nominee, John Kerry, called, or seemed to call, the President of the United States and his crew ``a crooked bunch of liars.'' Now, those are strong…

in 1965 if one asked a group of people how many in their family have to take five, six, seven pills a day just to survive, how many hands would be raised? Probably not many because in 1965 we did not have the miracle drugs that we have…

if you go into almost any group of 30 to 40 people and ask how many of you have someone in your family who has to take three or four pills a day, each and every day for the rest of their lives in order to stay active and stay comfortable…

the economy is turning around: a 7.2 percent growth last quarter in the gross domestic product, the largest since Ronald Reagan cut taxes in 1984. The jobless claims have fallen. More people are working than ever before. Productivity has…

do the tax breaks work? Well, not according to Howard Dean and Al Sharpton and Wesley Clark and all the other liberal left running for President. But a funny thing happened in the economy. Last month, the numbers came out. The gross…

last year Saddam Hussein spent $13 million on health care in Iraq. This year the United States will spend $200 million. Two years ago when Olympic soccer players made a mistake or lost a game, they were tortured and held hostage until they…