Jack Kingston

Mr. Chairman, I just rise in support of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Barr) that would require the supermajority of 75 percent. The reason is that we have heard many times that no other States have had to have…

in 1994, along the campaign trail, Republicans said that if the Republican Party became the majority, that we would pass a legislative agenda called the Contract with America within the first 100 days of the 1995 session. Washington…

we hear a lot of fanfare about the budget and the surplus, and we hear that the deficit has been wiped out. When we take a close look at this, we find the only reason why we can say the budget is balanced is because we take $100 billion in…

put Social Security first. This is the battle cry of certain leading politicians, and I agree with that. But how can we say put Social Security first, and then go out and introduce a whole bunch of new spending programs? The way our budget…

I had the opportunity on Friday to go say good-bye to many of the troops who were leaving to go to Kuwait. They were on the tarmac, they had already said good-bye to their families, they had already gotten their paperwork in order. They…

2 years ago on the lectern to my right behind me, the President stood up and said the era of big government is over. Hence, enter into, I guess, the era of the smaller government. And then this week, as he announced his new $100 billion…

I will be glad to yield on the gentleman's time. We can talk about the Reagan record, reducing inflation. We can talk about unemployment going down, the creation of 18 million new jobs, economic turnaround, interest rates falling, the…

I think that the gentleman has raised a good point that taxes are an indication of the size of your government. One of the things that when we talk about a balanced budget, if we had government the size that we do today, if we had the same…

I overheard the beginning of your speech, and I thought it was very important that you pointed out that 2 years ago the President said that the era of big government is over. And yet the other day, yesterday, he said, we are now at the end…

a year ago the President proclaimed the era of big government is over. And then recently he said, it is now the end of an era, meaning we have a surplus and we had a lot of ways to spend it. So I guess the era that big government was over…

Yesterday we saw a demonstration on the differences between the Republican and the Democrat parties. We had, last night, the President of the United States as our guest in this Chamber. The President was received warmly by Republicans…

last in the hearts of the New York Times and the Washington Post, first in the hearts of his countrymen, that perhaps is the most fitting description of Ronald Reagan. He came into office after a difficult decade, with humiliation in Iran…

at first the Democrat leader, Tom Daschle, said he knew of no Americans who were overtaxed, and then the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, said he thought the people of Virginia were selfish for wanting to keep more of their…

this is the way it is. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding this time to me. The argument of sampling really boils down to this very simple chart. Under the United States Census called for by the Constitution, the…

I think the House bill should be passed, as is, by both bodies. I do not feel that way about the potential Senate bill, and even though I have not seen or read the Senate bill in its entirety, I have a lot of concerns about what is coming…

sometimes on particular issues, the distinctions between the Democrat and Republican Party are blurred. But when it comes to taxes, there is absolutely no doubt. What does the leading Democrat in the United States of America have to say…

I would say to them that they are doing their best, they are paying taxes, they are not taking things out of society, they are earning their way, they are teaching their children to earn their way, and they are going to become future…

recently a teacher in Camden County, GA told me about going to a conference near the State capitol designed to tell teachers not to hug kids anymore and not to be in the room alone with them anymore, never to touch them. She says, ``You…

Why are the liberal Washingtonian Democrats so afraid to change public education? Why are they trying to maintain the status quo in public education? What is it that they were afraid of? Are they so in the pockets of the Washington big…

Why are the Democrats trying to keep the status quo in public education? Are they so much in the pocket of the Washington Teachers Union that they are willing to sacrifice America's children to educational mediocrity? As a public school…

In 1992, there was one charter school in the United States of America. Today, there are over 1000. In the next 3 years, there are expected to begin 3,000 more. What. Is a charter school and why do they seem to be growing and seem to be so…

A can of soda, 35 percent taxes. A gallon of gas, 54 percent tax. When taxpayers say, ``I am paying too much tax,'' they are saying ``I pay too much sales tax. I pay too much income taxes and tangible taxes and ad valorem taxes.'' They are…

I think we should move for simplification and we should move to insist that IRS employees have a taxpayer friendly attitude. But along with this, whether we go to a flat tax or whether we go to a national sales tax or whatever we do, we…

The initials, IRS, if we can change them to RAS, which would stand for reduced taxes, change the attitude and simplify taxes, if we could do that, I think then we can all go home to these great families that we have and look our children…

If I can reclaim my time, Mr. Speaker, here is something interesting. The gentleman keeps using the word ``culture.'' One of the finds of this committee is that the culture is so insular that only 5 of the top 73 IRS employees have been…