Jack Kingston

Let me tell the gentleman, I will give three examples. A teacher in Saint Mary's, Georgia, told me that she had just returned from Athens, Georgia, where she went to a seminar where they taught teachers from all over the State how to…

I think it is real important for us to just have a good balance between reducing spending and trying to fund necessary programs. This Congress has done a great job towards balancing and protecting and preserving Medicare, protecting and…

I guess, in our time to close, let us just say, this Congress has worked and has balanced the budget. This Congress has worked to protect Social Security. We have worked to protect Medicare, not just for the next election, but for the next…

A number of parts of this are so important, teacher testing for teacher competency, Reading Excellency Act, high job skills training. One item I wanted to talk about, though, school nutrition, now I am on the Committee on Agriculture and…

Which are very significant. That is not just measured in tax dollar savings, that is measured in people who are happy, who are independent, greater self-esteem, greater satisfaction, because they went out and found a job, and working they…

there was this guy who was in hell and he was sentenced to go to hell and he was walking around down there and he was smiling. The devil says to him, what are you smiling about. He said, I am from South Georgia. It is 90 degrees. I do not…

today's vote is not about impeachment. Today's vote is about the search for truth. This is a vote that our grandchildren will ask us about many years from now when our constituents have long forgotten us, many years from now when our terms…

not wanting to respond directly to my friend, the gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. McKinney), I must say apparently she has not read the bill. There is nothing in the bill that talks about a land swap. I would invite my friend to read the…

after 2 years of being stricken and terrified with a Democrat House of Representatives, a Democrat Senate and a Democrat White House, the American people in 1994 changed horses. We put Republicans in charge of the House and the Senate, and…

Americans pay on the average about 40 percent of their total household income in taxes. In 1996, recognizing this, the Republican leadership pushed for a middle class tax cut, despite the President's and most of the Democrats' objections…

after 40 years of Democrat rule in the United States House of Representatives, what do we have? We have a national debt of about $5 trillion. Year after year, deficit spending. After 3 years of Republican rule, we have a surplus. What do…

I want to speak also on this farm crisis. I represent coastal Georgia, 18 southeast Georgia counties. But to the entire State of Georgia, the farm crisis has been devastating. The coastal area that I represent, Savannah, Brunswick, and…

I want to say, from Georgia to Hawaii, we are happy to work for the American family farmer; and at this point, if we do not help them, we will not have a family farmer left.

I for one frankly am a lot more concerned about why the Chinese communists funneled into the Democrat National Party $3 million in illegal contributions during the last election. What was that all about? And why suddenly after that did we…

The Commerce, State and Justice bill has become part of the Clinton regain-credibility-by-shutting-down-the-government strategy. We have a disagreement, or let us say Clinton has a disagreement. He wants to renege on last year's promise…

Last Friday America's family room was invaded. I call the Rotunda in the United States Capitol America's family room, because this is where American tourists come and Americans come to see their government in action. The thin line between…

we have heard a lot of squawking today from the Democrat side about their big protect-the-trial-lawyers health care bill. I think if you look at the Republican versus the Democrat bill, it is very clear: One of the bills gets you quickly…

today we have heard liberal after liberal, Democrat after Democrat, excuse me, I am being redundant, speak in favor of a new $2 billion tax increase. They are so proud of the Gore tax. Every time you call your mother, it is going to cost…

today Speaker Newt Gingrich introduces one of the most important jobs bills that this Congress will consider during this term, and I am talking about the bill to reduce the capital gains tax from 20 percent to 15 percent. When this has…

That is excellent news. Let us take the Social Security completely out and do what the gentleman is proposing in his legislation, build a wall around it. The point I am really getting to, if you are walking down the street and you find a…

One of the things we have come across on the Committee on Appropriations, as you know, is plain out inefficiency, which is what this is, and the biggest example that we hear the most complaints about is the IRS. One of the examples that…

you know there are a lot of lists in the world. There is the top 40 list of hit music, there is the top 10 list that Letterman is so famous for. There is the list of the World Series winners, the most valuable players, the Oscar winners…

Mr. Speaker, I want to get back to something the previous speaker said about the Supreme Court's making a statement that they never came out against school prayer. That was not the case at all. If we look at the Engel v. Vitale case in…

I am here to talk about tobacco. Think about this one minute, those who are cigarette smokers. They may be familiar with the Pagoda Red Mountain cigarette. The Pagoda brand, as Members may know, is the third largest cigarette selling in…

Mr. Chairman, if one is in a burning building and one has to jump 5 stories, one does not say wait a minute to the fireman below with the safety net, are you from the right fire jurisdiction? I do not want to jump just to anybody. Our…