Jack Kingston

As we approach Memorial Day, I think there are two things that we can keep in mind. One is, we should remember in our memorial to our war dead that they were kids themselves. The people who fought so hard for our freedom and sacrificed…

A key element which Paul Harvey may refer to as the rest of the story, who was the majority in Congress in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 but liberal, big-spending Democrats? And what do they do when they get your money? They spend it. Why are…

there has been much said about the Florida election returns, and we hear over and over again from people that, well, Bush really did not win the election; that he stole it. I would invite Members of the House to pick up a copy of the USA…

yesterday I had the honor of being visited by the Savannah Christian Middle School, and in the back row of this large crowd of students, there was a young woman named Amy. Amy made about $20 a day working for her father, but, of course…

Should a grocery store employee be prohibited from bagging a turkey that weighs more than 15 pounds? Now, I have a family of four, so if I can find a 15 pound turkey, I am going to buy it. Now, my wife can pick up a 15 pound turkey because…

on this 90th birthday of Ronald Reagan, I think all of us should be inspired; and we unfortunately are a country that has grown so cynical that, okay, it is not cool to say something nice about Ronald Reagan because I am a Democrat or it…

last year I was in Macon, Georgia, for the Girls' State Championship Basketball Game, and it was a great thrill when I saw that the Savannah Country Day girls were victorious. Last night, unfortunately, I was unable to attend, but many of…

I must say, in listening to the rhetoric here and the passion of my colleagues across the aisle, I am a little confused, because they know that the language that is in the House bill is stronger and goes further than the original language…

What is it like to be retired in the 1990s on a fixed income with rising health care costs, high prescription drugs, and expensive, long-term residential treatment? It does not have to be this way, though. That is why this Congress, this…

now we have from the Gore-Clinton administration the formula for turning around education. This was revealed on September 7, 2000, by the Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, and I quote: ``What we need are the three R's in education…

Well, the gentleman was talking earlier about debt reduction, and I think it is so important. I am a supporter of lower taxes. I think it is just fundamentally wrong for the government to hold more than it needs. What are we, serfs? Is…

To continue on this, one of the reasons why we are losing good soldiers right now is that the pay is low and they do have to go on food stamps. Last week, I was at the third infantry division while they were deploying to Bosnia. In our…

the gentleman did not have to make this story up, unlike Vice President Gore, who has to absolutely lie about his mother-in-law. The truth is out there. Why not tell the truth?

what I think is real important to understand is that in Canada and Mexico they can buy drugs made in America by the same drug companies that we buy from at our local pharmacist and they can buy those same drugs, same dosage for 30 percent…

My dad is 82 years old. He is legally blind. He has diabetes. His Social Security is very important to him. But the other thing is he has saved all his life. Now, it is popular now with the environmentalists to say, when one is brushing…

I think if we look at the Gore plan, and there is a plan, it has never been introduced for 8 years, but suddenly about a month ago the Gore plan had a new prescription drug benefit. I did not know it until I saw an advertisement on there…

this lockbox concept, as I understand it, is simply common sense. What we are saying is we do not mix our pension plan for retirement with our operating expenses that we use for roads and bridges and education and other congressional…

what bothers me as a member of the Committee on Appropriations, we get a budget blueprint from you, and the House passes our appropriation budgets based on those blueprints, and we keep the spending in line so that it is balanced…

Now, maybe combining all three of the gentleman's hats of agriculture, armed services and budget, the gentleman also is providing money to get active duty personnel off of food stamps.

I know also one of the goals of the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on the Budget has been to cut the paperwork so that our veterans not only have the money at the VA to provide their…

I wanted to bring up something that, as we work on prescription drug coverage, and it is interesting, the only bill that has passed is a Republican bill, yet as we listen to Gore and the Democrat party, we would think that they have passed…

I guess it should come as no surprise to the American people that the administration that attacks the Boy Scouts is now attacking the institution of marriage, and they are doing it from an insidious higher taxes on the couples who dare do…

I want to say this. My wife has one of the most important jobs in America. She is raising John, Betsy, Ann and Jim Kingston, who are all at home and we are glad to have them there, but she clips those coupons every Sunday and she goes…

Jimmy Carter wrote a book in the 1970s called Why Not the Best? And he talked about rethinking. So many of the things that we do routinely in government, and I think that even though we had philosophical differences of what that blueprint…

our Food and Drug Administration has prohibited our senior citizens from buying drugs, prescription drugs, medicine, in Canada, which is sold at a lower price than it is in America.