Jack Kingston

there is a story of a very learned doctor of theology, a distinguished minister, who was walking through the park one day. He sees a guy who is kind of an itinerant of sorts, and he is reading the Book of Revelations. The doctor of…

there is a lot of talk about national testing, so I designed one for Congress. Multiple choice. If a Federal official raises money from a taxpayer-funded office, he is: A. Breaking the law. B. OK if it is soft money. C. OK if he does not…

I agree. Parents have got to come back into the formula. We are moving in the same direction on this. Let me say one thing that I have been appalled about with the parents. They are bombarded. When you ask parents, well, do you listen to…

Mr. Speaker, one of the issues I wanted to talk about, that ties into this on the subject of age-appropriate parenting and marriage-based parenting, has to do with the kooky policy that we have in our Internal Revenue Code that says when…

I would say, Livingston also sat on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence.

The man who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen--on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade and…

Back years ago schoolchildren were required to memorize this. What a shame that is no longer the case.

He is a very important historical figure. The gentleman actually had a fifth delegate named William Churchill Houston who did not sign. And it is interesting, because in Georgia we had a William Houstoun who also did not sign. They spelled…

On the subject of family planning, the most effective course is going to be at home in the family, not the extended institutional family.

I agree with the gentlewoman. I was speaking the other day in Brunswick High School, to the junior school, a lot of 16-year-old kids. The young women in that class were particularly interested in a lot of issues, but we got on the success…

I just heard the Democrat Party say that the Republicans who freed the slaves in the Civil War were radical extremists. I just want to make sure we got that right in the Record. The Republicans who led the fight against slavery were…

I certainly think that it is a good time to talk about campaign finance reform and all the things that have been going on, particularly with the shenanigans at the White House, the renting of the Lincoln bedroom, the raising money on…

I say, let us go back to the local level where the action is, where a lot of the solutions are, and so forth. On the subject of right and wrong, I was jogging the other day out in front, leaving the Capitol, going by the Smithsonian…

So much of the discipline picture, though, has got to get back to the home and the parents. We had Charles Ellis Montessori School in Savannah, GA, an excellent school putting out a great product in the students that it educates. The…

I think what is very, very important and what he is talking about is that allowing the local innovation, the grassroots on up rather than the command and control pushing down the rules, what will happen if Minnesota is as good as all…

On that same subject, I was talking with some executives at BellSouth from Georgia earlier today, and they are very, very involved in education and trying to get kids on line and computer friendly on the Internet and all the good stuff we…

It is amazing though that somebody in the height of a medical career, a successful medical career would take the time out to somewhat sidetrack or derail his career to be a Member of Congress. We are just so proud to have somebody like the…

That is right. And teachers, if given the opportunity to be creative, can light the fire in the students' minds and get them enthusiastic. If the gentleman will remember, today we had the Reverend George Dillard give the opening prayer…

As I talk to teachers they are very, very frustrated in two things: No. 1, that they cannot control their own classroom anymore because there are so many Federal rules that have been passed down to the State education bureaucracies and…

it is unbelievable to hear Democrats talk about campaign finance reform and the need for it while they are strangely, strangely silent on the subject of criminal violations apparently by Members of their party in this administration. Point…

there is a big misconception among many people on that side of the aisle that more spending means less deaths. I want to say in 1994 the number of work-related deaths was 6,632. That number dropped in 1996 to 6,112 and that was with very…

yesterday Democrat after Democrat cried for campaign finance reform. For Democrats to talk about campaign finance reform is a little like getting mad at the road for the transgressions of a drunk driver. Where have they been when it comes…

Princess Diana lived a glamorous and, at times, a surreal life. While some truly envied her and surely at times she envied us, those of us who can go out in public without recognition, those of us who can eat in a restaurant without…

summer is over, schools are open, the kids are back, reading, writing and arithmetic. There are a lot of ideas kicking around about how best to teach to our children. One creative, yet controversial, idea in Houston asked math problems…

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate being recognized to speak in favor of the School of the Americas. Not everything is perfect. Unfortunately, the folks who support this amendment are correct in that in the past there have been graduates of this…