Jack Kingston

And that, I believe, that is why House Members are speaking out on something that really does not come before the House. But we see it as the Democrats are after this guy, apparently because he is Hispanic, apparently because they do not…

What is the deal with the Democrats and Miguel Estrada? Is it racism or is it that they just do not like the guy? Because he is definitely qualified to sit on the D.C. Court. He would be the first Hispanic on that court. He graduated magna…

Well, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman spoke of naysayers. Here is what the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) said, who is the ranking member on the Committee on Ways and Means, a distinguished man, but clearly wrong on this: ``The only…

I was blessed as a child growing up in Athens, Georgia. There were a lot of Cuban families who had to leave Cuba because of Castro... If anything, I found, particularly among, I would say, those types of immigrants, more patriotism than…

here are some interesting statistics: 3.6 million fewer Americans live in poverty today than they did in 1996; 2.7 million fewer children live in poverty today than in 1996, including 1 million African American children. These are…

Mr. Speaker, as you know, the President has listed as one of his priority items this year to have a compassionate, conservative model to end drug addiction. His idea is let us reach out to people who are unfortunately trapped by drug…

I hope he continues to rise, not because he is young, not because he is a Hispanic, not because he is an immigrant, but because he is pro-American and he wants to do what is right, and that is what we need on our judicial benches all over…

Absolutely. Yet at the same time, a man of great sincerity and religious conviction who has said repeatedly he does not want war and does not take any of these decisions lightly. This is all done void of politics, void of reelection, void…

I do not want to touch base on Cuba, but I know that your brother talked to the President about it this weekend, and I thought the President, as usual, approached the whole question not with politics, but with conviction.

But there is a pressure to put tourism dollars in it. We have kind of drawn the line, this Congress has.

Right now we have some limited trade. We can trade with them, but it has to be on a cash basis.

If we can go back to the pre 9-11 USA, there were tremors. As the gentleman said, in 1993, the bombing of the World Trade Center, embassy bombings two times in Africa, the USS Cole in Yemen. There were not just terrorist attacks but…

I wonder, because we talked about immigrant patriotism before, maybe their problem, after all, is not that he is Hispanic. Maybe their problem is the fact that he is an immigrant and therefore more pro-American than the average person, and…

One of the great parts of my childhood growing up in Athens, Georgia, it was not so great for them particularly at the time was when so many Cubans fled Castro and Athens, Georgia, was one of the towns that they arrived in. I was raised…

Mr. Speaker, we need to get this off the table so that we can move on to other things, addressing the economy, addressing Iraq, addressing Medicare and a prescription drug benefit, some of the things that I hope the President will talk…

Mr. Speaker, we are here tonight because the other body has not had a good year. It is a fact that the United States Senate did not pass a budget. It is a fact that the United States Senate has not passed the faith-based initiative. It is…

the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was forced to close its trauma unit after 57 of 58 surgeons quit, citing exposure to costly medical malpractice. In LeHigh, Pennsylvania, one-third of the surgeons quit because of unrelenting problems…

Now, let us just kind of go back in time. Suppose it is August 2001, and a Member of Congress is speaking to a Rotary Club or something and says, listen, there is a guy out there, a known terrorist named Osama bin Laden. He has a group…

I am proud of many of the things that we have accomplished in the 107th Congress. On the House side, we have passed lots of legislation, from homeland security to pension reform to cracking down on corporate fraud and misdeeds. We have…

on this day I believe we have the duty to remember all the ones who died on 9/11 and all the ones who have died in Afghanistan and elsewhere as a result of this war on terrorism. As one stares at Ground Zero today, it looks like any other…

back in April 24 when the House Republicans passed Financial Accountability we had three main points to it. Number one, disclosure of facts. Disclosure of facts to employees, to shareholders, to anyone who may have something at stake that…

I think in so many ways this debate is about our government versus their government, and our government is about democracy. It is about a republic. Their government is about really one guy basically, Fidel Castro. What is wrong with him…

I am reminded of a Dr. Seuss character that I think was called a Push Me-Pull You. I do not really remember what it was all about, but it seemed to me that the character was unwilling to be pushed, unwilling to be pulled. I think that must…

I have read this amendment and listened to a lot of testimony over the past several years about the need to do this sort of thing in our forests. When you look at the common sense of preserving the life of the forest, the ecosystem and…

Reclaiming my time, this helps a lot of people in that 1985 to 2000 and on bracket. There are lots who are not going to be benefitted either way but these people will be helped tremendously.