Jack Kingston

I want to say I certainly appreciate the concern of our friends across the aisle about spending on this bill and spending on all bills. I think it is a great day when Democrats are worried about fiscal responsibility. Having said that, I…

we are about half way, maybe not half way, but we are at a critical juncture in our mission in Iraq; but the Democrats want to bail out now. They want to pull the rug out from under the President of the United States so badly that they are…

I wanted to speak on the subject of the supplemental budget. Eighty-seven billion dollars is indeed a lot of money. Yet, building democracy in the Middle East, building an ally in the Middle East, another ally, would be very, very helpful…

Mr. Speaker, I wanted to bring up what the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. LaHood) had mentioned too on the Capitol visitors center. This committee, on a bipartisan basis, has taken a real close look at the Capitol visitors center. It is…

I just wanted to readdress some of the points that the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) had made briefly on this disaster money that the motion to recommit requests $1.55 billion to be funded, which is what the administration's original…

I wanted to start out saying that there is a statement, I cannot quite get it right, but it states to the effect that men who have monuments built after them to honor them do not need monuments built after them to honor them because their…

I want to say as a supporter of the Gutknecht bill that this bill is about safety because it is unsafe not to take your medicine. If you need Glucophage, if you need Lipitor, if you need Tamoxifen, you have to get it as inexpensively as…

I just wanted to point out, Mr. Speaker, that when we hear about the bill having more money for acquiring more land, it is important to keep in perspective how much land is actually owned by the United States, which is approximately…

I say to my friend from Maryland that I believe it is the intent of this committee to conform with whatever the other Federal employees end up getting in terms of COLAs.

when the Republicans took over the White House, the Senate and the House, the critics in this town came out of the woodwork, which does not take much to rile them up, but they said they are never going to get anything done. The first year…

I wanted to say that the legislative branch bill is somewhat the inside baseball bill, the operating budget for the U.S. Capitol. It includes not just the legislative branch per se but the Capitol Hill Police, the Library of Congress and…

actually I am glad the gentleman mentioned this, because we are the majority party, we take responsibility for governing. There is no question about that. We get the credit if it is good. We get the blame if it is bad. But let us also…

I believe this is a very interesting proposal. I think it is a promising idea and something there is probably a lot of good bipartisan support for. I have sponsored the Congressional Arts Awards Program in my former district for 10 years…

I want to respond real quickly on the tax cuts thing because, as you know, one of big problems we have is controlling spending on a bipartisan basis, and there is a lot of pressure, no matter what it is, there is not enough for education…

let me respond on a few points that the previous speaker made. And I wanted to say that, as the gentleman knows, the passage of laws is not always perfect, and it is not always neat, particularly when we are in the majority and have to…

I just wanted to remind my colleagues what some of their Democrat Members in the other body said. Here is a Member from Indiana, October 3, 2002: ``Saddam Hussein possesses chemical, biological weapons and, if events are allowed to run…

it is time to revise and reform Medicare. It is time to move us away from a government oriented, a Soviet model of socialism approach to health care for our senior citizens. We need a program that is light, a program that is solid, a…

I appreciate our friend, the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Taylor), for advancing the cause of fiscal restraint, something that we do need to do in this House. And it is interesting, particularly since the Democrats are right now…

What I would love to hear from our Democrat colleagues, Mr. Speaker, who are saying I voted against this tax cut and a tax cut which was a jobs bill, took 3 million working families off the tax roll, 3 million, and I understand they wanted…

Our objective is to get people working, and that was the real goal of this to get folks working. Let me say this to my friend from Tennessee: if the gentleman wants to join us in making the child tax credit permanent; the marriage tax…

Reclaiming my time, let me jog the gentleman's memory. Here is what the situation was, and the gentleman is a distinguished member of the Committee on Rules and has lots of bills that pass through his desk, so I will not hold you…

here is the situation with welfare reform, Mr. Speaker. We passed welfare reform at a time when there were 14 million people on welfare. At that time, we were called all kinds of names, and they were saying it was heartless and we were…

I have to say the Democrats evidently are fired up tonight. They are feeling good. They think they have some rhetorical traction here. And it is all rhetoric when you listen to the Democrats, including the last Member, who said our…

I just want to say this is probably the most important amendment because I have his and the ranking member's support. All it says is in the event of BRAC, if they close down a base, the roads will stay open to the local folks, and that…

Back home in Georgia we need jobs. We need it for college graduates. We need it for high school graduates. We need it for people who are 35 years old. We need it for people who are 45 years old. People like Ted Smith. I am going to make up…