Jack Kingston

The book of Proverbs tells us that the test of gold is fire, but the test of man is adversity. Today, America is being tested one more time. But just as we in the past have faced the adversities of war, disease and depression, we will…

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in addition to losing thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens, loved ones, parents, moms, brothers and sisters, we were attacked at three symbolic buildings, a financial center, a military center, and the…

I want to say that if rhetoric turned turbines, we would have enough electricity for the next 100 years just listening to the Democrats today. But the truth is, we have got to move on. We do not have an energy policy. Let me give you a…

Mr. Speaker, there you have it. You have got one group in the House who says a $4 billion increase is too much spending. You have another group in the House that says it is not enough spending. You have a group in the House who gauges all…

it strikes me as odd that here we are in the legislative branch. As I recall, in this building, which is our office, we have a protection service, an excellent protection service, the Capitol Hill Police. Is that billed, so to speak? That…

I think one thing we have to accept as Members of government is that there is a lot of cross billing and overlap. Here we are in the Legislative Branch and we get the medical services from the Navy. We have the Historical Society services…

Mr. Chairman, I also thank the ranking member and the chairman, both of them, for their support of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico, and in Brunswick, Georgia. This very important Federal Training Center…

I want my friend from Maryland to know I stand in opposition, but reluctant opposition, because I too see a lot of imperfections with the A-76 study approach. I see a lot of families getting booted in midlife, mid-career, and often the…

Mr. Chairman, I wanted to, number one, stress to all of those who may be listening that the United States embargo allows the donation of food, clothing and medicine to the Cuban people. The embargo also allows the controlled sale of…

Unfortunately, some of the reports say in a high, mountainous remote area, the best way to get to them is from the air because of the resistance. I do agree that manual destruction is superior. One thing the gentleman has not mentioned is…

I say that I love the U.N., but the fact is that there is no adult supervision at the U.N. these days. They go off on their own tear, and bureaucrat A from country A talks to bureaucrat B from country B, and then they go to a committee and…

one of the goals that I wanted to accomplish as a Member of Congress is to help make health care more affordable and more accessible. This week we have a choice between two bills. One of them is the Dingell-Norwood-Ganske bill. That bill…

I am saddened and disturbed by those who are in opposition of this legislation. I would ask, Mr. Speaker, is there a road, is there a bridge, is there a building in the United States of America that was built by one person, one…

I stand in support of the Gutknecht amendment, and I think there are two reasons we should focus on this. Number one is cost, and number two is safety. I have to ask Members, 435 Members, how many have heard the story from a senior citizen…

Let me ask the gentleman, why is it that the Governor of California has enough time to come on major comedian shows like David Letterman and come out in Washington for Democratic fund raisers and come back East to raise cane about George…

In France, 76 percent of the homes and buildings are powered by nuclear energy; in Belgium, 56 percent; in America, most people do not know this, it is 20 to 25 percent already, and it is safe. I represent Kings Bay Naval Base and all the…

If my hometown, Savannah, Georgia, grew, and it has been growing. As it grows we have added new schools, we have added new hospitals, we have built new roads, we have built new bridges. In fact, the State of Georgia has had about an 18…

I do believe we can work together for good, sound science of modern technology, of solutions, and we can get there. We can improve our infrastructure for energy to get the power to the places that it is needed. We can promote conservation…

I wanted to add to that point that in Russia, and I was recently in Russia, their pipelines that transport the oil, they actually use it for oil transportation as much as trucks, but they spill the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez-type spill…

I would say that this is one of the problems, and I would urge the NEA in their own distribution to go out to the rest of the country and make their presence known. I can say this, we do not get any letters. Yes, let us do something for…

Let me say this: again, that is one of the situations with the NEA that it is disproportionately spent in New York.

Mr. Chairman, I do want to say to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter), my good friend, that that is one of the problems with the NEA and the rest of the country. As I go around to my art community, Savannah, Georgia, is blessed…

we all just heard a very interesting discussion, and I am being very generous with that word, on the energy crisis. It seems that there are those who are just content in trying to make political hay out of a problem in California during a…

liberal extremists in Washington want to adopt the California approach on energy and make it national policy. That is kind of a head-in-the-sand approach. They do not like coal, they do not like oil, they do not like nuclear power. They…

what the big government liberals in Washington want to do to the working men and women is reach their hand in their pocket, grab the wallet, pull out all of their hard-earned cash, year after year, so that the working people now are paying…