Jack Kingston

back in the First District of Georgia what will the tax cut mean to the Collins family? Mr. and Mrs. Collins, who have a combined income of $61,000 and three kids, Dennis, Tom, and Sue Ellen, the $500 per child tax credit means the…

Mr. Chairman, if we look at the guts of the farm bill, it is, indeed, as complicated as the inside of the Pathfinder. As the Pathfinder trudges and scrutinizes the surface of Mars, the American public and Members of Congress are…

They have a $200 million carryover, and so the discussion of saying that there are children starving and because of this we have got to give the benefit of the doubt is totally specious, totally emotional, total demagoguery. The children…

No; I have not. That is a very good point because there seems to be something here that WIC is good, pay more money into it. It can be good at adequately funded levels right now, and I am not sure why people are trying to run away from…

According to our calculations it is funded at 7.4 million participants and that it is fully funded. Now does WIC have any leftover money, or are they scraping the bottom right now?

We increased it in May by $76 million. We increase it in this bill $118 million.

Exactly. And 2 months ago we were told the $76 million increase would bring us up to the full participation level, and we did not have a dialog or a debate about this in committee. It was everybody was happy.

Reclaiming my time, it would be great if we were privately funding the whole bill. But, unfortunately, the taxpayers are paying all $49 billion of this bill; $37 billion of it is going into food and nutrition programs for children, but…

with all the discussion about balancing the budget and providing tax relief, people are concerned. Well, why is it necessary and is it even consistent to give tax relief while we are trying to balance the budget? After all, people are…

Absolutely, and I know in my First District that I represent of Georgia it will give tax relief, we figure, to about 300,000 people in the coastal Georgia area alone. But you know the more money you have as a wage earner, the more money…

Yes, and it is very interesting that the gentleman will point out that the President is working with the Republican Party on a bipartisan basis to give this middle class tax relief. There are Members, liberal extremists, on one fringe…

Mr. Chairman, I stand in support of the Chabot amendment, and here is why. As my colleagues know, we are kind of getting involved in what policy should be or, I guess, what is good and what makes sense and so forth. But we should remember…

Well, if the gentleman would continue to yield, I would suggest that most of the government employees do not understand what the small businesses that provide most of the jobs in America are up against each day because of increased…

Well, Mr. Speaker, it is only 10:30 and the Democrats are already confused. No surprise, but usually they make it to 11 o'clock. Here is the idea of nothing for the poor. Let us examine the case of a person who is poor who does not work…

But this tax relief plan is about the middle class and creating jobs, and what we have is, a lot of liberals are against that and therefore they are against job creation.

I want to also say to the gentleman from Michigan, when we came here it was socialized medicine. It was the largest tax increase in history. It was expansion of the Hatch Act. It was motor voter. Everything was big government, big…

is the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Parker] suggesting that most liberals in fact work for government, therefore, have not the slightest clue what it is like to be in the business world? Is that what the gentleman is suggesting?

on that point, I think it was Jesus who amazed the people by saying Nicodemus, the tax collector, would not be in fact going to hell after all. That was the first time that concept was introduced biblically, I believe.

what if we were to go on a 6-month diet to lose 30 pounds and we got to the 4th month and we had already lost 28 pounds? Would we quit exercising and quit dieting because we were so far ahead of schedule? We had not reached our goal yet…

If the gentleman is finished with his point, I wanted to add on that a little bit, because one of the disappointing things is that the President and many of the liberals want to actually give the $500-per-child tax credit to folks who do…

with the Fourth of July having just passed, I wanted to reflect on some of the thoughts I had and shared with people in Glynn, Wayne, and Pierce County, GA, this past week. I started out by saying, you know, one of the big thrills of…

Mr. Speaker, 1969: The Vietnam war, Woodstock, Neil Armstrong was on the Moon, Jimi Hendrix experience, Mod Squad, Walt Disney was not even controversial yet, Richard Nixon was President and the budget was balanced, but that was the last…

I am certainly glad tonight to have an opportunity to discuss this tax bill with my Democrat colleagues and Republican colleagues. Tomorrow we are going to vote on the first tax relief bill in 16 years. It is a bill that gives capital…

if Republicans were giving away chocolate candy, Democrats would accuse them of promoting cavities in America's children. They are masters of misrepresentation. They are totally against this tax cut. They do not want the middle class to…

So when you say this is a family issue, you know firsthand what a family issue is about.