Jack Kingston

now we peek behind the curtains of the back room of the great CARA brain trust and we find, behind the platitudes of all of this fairness and this need for consistency which seems to be driving CARA, we find a special interest exemption…

the point of the Peterson amendment is that it limits CARA funds, but it does not limit the ability of the Committee on Appropriations or the authorizing committee.

I want my colleagues to pay real close attention to what the Pombo amendment is saying. It simply says, if they are a landowner and they are next door to Federal land, then their property rights should not be diminished. For crying out…

I wish the people who are pushing CARA, $2.8 billion a year in Federal acquisition money for 15 years, could tell us. The point is, we are concerned on behalf of our State governments, on behalf of private landowners that this is a Federal…

The question is, how much land should the Federal Government own? Twenty-five percent, 35 percent, 40 percent, 50 percent? The lead cosponsor of this bill cannot answer the question and instead gives us this fishy answer.

I wanted to talk about education a little bit, because if one looks at the record on education, Republican versus Democrat leadership, it is not even close. Republicans have put far more resources into education, far more flexibility for…

how did the Army lose a $1 million rocket launcher? How did the Air Force lose 15 jets? How did the Department of Interior build a $300,000 outhouse? Why is it that Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream gets an $800,000 taxpayer supplement? Why is it…

last year when the House proposed to Federal agencies that they cut out 1 cent of every dollar they spend, the Clinton administration screamed bloody murder. Cut out 1 cent from the Federal Government for every dollar we spend? There is no…

now, we have to love that government crowd down at the Census Bureau. I mean they are so typical government. We remember this crowd. They are the ones who did not want to bother counting the people just because that strange document called…

today I want to talk about Meredith T. Jones. She is one of 48,000 Georgians who has found out that being 65 is not as old as she thought it was. She has great health, she has great energy and enthusiasm, particularly with the kids out of…

we are continuing right now the very important budget negotiation process. One thing that the Republican Party stands firm on is that we have to meet our Social Security/ Medicare obligations. Last year our budget's first priority was to…

It is amazing that in this society where our government has all kinds of rules, regulations and taxes to encourage and to discourage certain behaviors, that here we have really a frontal assault on married couples all over America, saying…

20 years ago my wife, Libby, and I walked down the aisle. And we were lucky, we had a lot of family and friends there, who showered us with gifts. My wife seemed to have written thank you notes for a month or two afterwards trying to catch…

I wanted to talk to the House tonight about the agenda which the Republican Conference is moving. We have worked closely with the White House and some Members of the Democratic Caucus on the BEST agenda, B-E-S-T. It is kind of easy to…

Let me read you another quote that is interesting. Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, when asked if the administration's position is we should not reduce the size of the Federal budget, he responded, ``That would certainly be the view of…

Republicans, we have been guilty, and Democrats, they have been guilty, have spent this money in the past. But this Congress has not done it, and so the fact that we are having this dialogue is great. Here is a chart from the Congressional…

Actually, $18 billion comes right out of the Clinton White House budget. It is interesting that when the White House does it, it is sound accounting procedures, but when Republicans do it, it is a gimmick.

I think it is historic in its own right that we are even having the debate about not spending the money.

tonight we need to talk about pizza, not just any pizza, but pepperoni pizza. I mean the hot, juicy, fresh-from-the-oven, thick Friday-night, after-the-football-game pepperoni pizza. Because if you are like millions of Americans and you…

Let me clarify and make sure people understand, you are not saying to shut down the government. You are saying just reduce.

Let me claim back my time for a minute just to underscore your point. The Pentagon had to report as missing two $4 million aircraft engines, two $850,000 tugboats, and one $1 million missile launcher. Anybody seen the missile launcher? We…

I think the gentleman has raised a good point. I believe you could cut 1 percent and most people would not know the difference. It is interesting that here is a quote I wanted to bring up, when asked why Democrats will not support finding…

But one of the things I want to point out is that there are many Members on the Democratic side of the aisle who say it is hard to argue against 1 percent reduction. We think we can do it. We, too, do not want to spend Social Security. So…

we are at a real interesting time. We are in the home run stretch of the legislative session. We are in a position on the budget that we are negotiating with the President because of three different reasons. Number one, we had the 1997…

I would say probably for three real reasons. Number one, in response to the American people in 1997 to get our fiscal house in order, we passed a bipartisan budget agreement. I did not support it. I know the gentleman from Wisconsin and…