Jack Kingston

How much time do we have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Virginia has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have our last speaker, who's going to close for us. Mr. Coffman is going to consume 3 minutes. So if the gentleman from Virginia wants to talk in 30 seconds, I will accommodate my friend. I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Virginia.

May I inquire how much time we have left? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia has 8 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Virginia has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

How much time do we have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia has 14\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Virginia has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Just to clarify one thing. Under the current President, the national debt now is 100 percent of the GDP. For every $1 we spend, 42 cents is borrowed. That's bad enough, but now the President offers no reform to bend the spending curve…

I thank the chairman for the time. Mr. Speaker, I want to say that we're here tonight on a continued debate over ObamaCare for a good reason. In fact, there's three reasons. Number one, health care is one-sixth of the economy. I think that…

I thank the gentleman. Another Fortune 500 company in Georgia has announced that 20,000 part-time employees will no longer have company-sponsored health care. We're hearing this over and over again. I talked to one man who has a successful…

Reclaiming my time, I would only say this. It's hard to figure out what the United States is doing at all under Harry Reid's leadership.

ObamaCare, as it has been affectionately called, was intended to do two things: Number one, make health care more affordable. Number two, make it more accessible, pure and simple. Let's talk about that. Does anyone know anybody whose…

I stand in opposition to the amendment offered by my friend from Virginia, and I want to start out by clarifying something that was said a minute ago, that this was done by clever Bush administration lawyers. In fact, it was a rule…

Today I rise to recognize the more than 1,600 young men and women who have come to our Capitol from across America this week to participate in the 49th annual Electric Cooperative Youth Tour. These high school juniors and seniors that you…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and stand in support of the amendment. There's two very major points of this. Number one is that we cannot continue to deny able-bodied people the dignity of work. There seems to be a belief in the nanny…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise today to engage my friend, Chairman McKeon, in a colloquy regarding the Defense Contract Audit Agency, or DCAA, and express concerns about the potential overreach of its authority…

I yield to the gentleman from California. Mr. McKEON. I thank my friend for bringing up this important issue. As you are aware, we did not reopen the issue in the current bill. However, I share your concerns and would hope that DCAA is not…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. (a) None of the funds made available in this…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This bill provides $43.6 billion for medical treatment for the 6.5 million veterans today who use the VA. It increases funding for processes, such as the electronic health record system and the disability claims…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for the time. To my friend from Georgia, who I know is just as fervent as we are in terms of cleaning up the backlog, I would say the only part with which we are in disagreement is this approach, again…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. In my role as chairman of the Health and Human Services Subcommittee of Appropriations, we oversee the budget for ObamaCare. I can tell you that the money is not there even for implementation. The…

Recently the government came out with a 106-page regulatory and safety reform plan for ceiling fans. I did not know ceiling fans were such a hazard to America's health, but apparently they are. So what's going to happen? That $40 ceiling…

I think that we should not be penny wise and pound foolish when it comes to program integrity.

I thank the gentleman from California. Mr. Speaker, the President owns this economy. He owns the high unemployment rate--the 23 million Americans who are unemployed or underemployed. He owns the lack of jobs, lack of opportunities. He owns…

Thank you, Mr. Woodall. And I certainly join everything that has been said about Jay Pierson already, but I'm going to say it from my point of view. My daughter is in a rock and roll band, and one of her great frustrations is trying to get…

I offer this amendment with Ms. McCollum from Minnesota today. In fact, it was her amendment from last year that got me involved in this. Basically, what this does is stops the Defense Department from using major sports sponsorships, such…

I want to point out that cancer research is already funded in this bill at a $246 million level. I also want to say that Mr. Young, Mr. Murtha, Mr. Dicks, and Mr. Lewis have had a long tradition of leadership on cancer research in the…

I want to say this. While we all acknowledge there was a numerical explosion and a substantive explosion or a questionable, in substance, on earmarks and that's why earmarks are banned, one of the advantages of earmarks is that it did let…