Jack Kingston

that is a sensible approach to better international relations, and I think a positive step, because if one is operating a business there, one needs to know. I had a case in Savannah of two young women who were aspiring actresses and they…

when an American overseas gets tuberculosis in a foreign jail, is there any kind of intervening rule in diplomacy that says we can give them medical treatment?

Now you keep talking about if one joint of marijuana is found on you, you might as well have a whole truck.

Well, that is just to get you a place in line, and sometimes, if you want to pay more, it can influence the verdict. And the gentlewoman has pointed out that the families back home, the spouses and the children who are waiting while the…

So, Mr. Speaker, they were not telling the gentlewoman, get out, Yankee go home, mind your own business; they were saying, Congresswoman, we are glad to have you here.

it is bizarre that in 1997 that exists anywhere in the world. It is further bizarre that 40 Americans would be in it. The human rights organization which the gentlewoman alluded to, have they reported any torture in this prison or in…

And these prisoners are all mixed together. What is the prison violence like? Is there a lot, or you know is there a pecking order among the inmates where, you know, those who are wealthier have better facilities than the poor ones?

So if you are an American and your family does not have money or if you do not have a family and you are in this situation, you are just stuck in a rat hole in South America.

Now, when you find a place to sleep on the floor, do you have the same spot every night, or do you have to kind of push to find a dry warm area?

let me ask the gentlewoman this. She went to this prison and the gentlewoman's visit was fairly well publicized. They knew 2 or 3 weeks in advance that the gentlewoman was coming. The gentlewoman was accompanied by State Department…

I know the term ``confused Democrat'' is a little bit redundant, but here we go again with WIC, demagoguing it. From the crowd that told our seniors that a $190 billion base in Medicare increased to $270 billion was a cut. From the group…

the junior high school that I went to in Athens, GA, had strict discipline. Students were taught to respect each other, to respect teachers, and to respect the institution. The high school, however, that I went to had a different view of…

I believe that the gentleman is correct in that we are going to move in that direction. I think we are going to find lots of ways to kind of creatively get out of the bureaucratic entanglement that so many of our communities have gotten…

Mr. Speaker, I have with me the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Pappas] and the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox]. We wanted to talk about the budget agreement that took place on May 2, last Friday. We think it is very important, very…

It is interesting that we talk about this. If we think about the interest that we are spending right now, as the gentleman knows, the second largest expenditure in our national budget each year is interest on the $5.1 trillion national…

The distinguished Speaker pro tempore from Maryland sitting there might not like it, but I think it is important for my colleagues to realize how far back in time we are talking about. I will give you an example. My dad was a tight-fisted…

My rule of political progress goes something like this: First you lock in everything you can get; then you denounce it as grossly inadequate. If you get the order wrong, the perfect becomes the enemy of the good, and in an unholy alliance…

Let me ask you this: We have been talking about balancing the budget. Is it consistent or inconsistent to talk about cutting taxes and balancing the budget?

But what would happen is for seniors who were in good health and decided they could take whatever smaller bills that were manageable, they would pay that out of that escrow account, keeping half of whatever they saved.

That is exactly right. I do not think it is always fraud. I think a lot of it is just sloppiness and negligence. There is a story, I am sorry I cannot cite the person but she received a bill for an autopsy, went to a doctor and said, ``I…

Now if the gentlewoman would yield for 10 seconds, $26 billion in fraud in Medicare and Medicaid together. That is twice the annual budget of the entire State of Georgia. I am not sure what your budget is in Connecticut, but you can run…

If you bring in a dollar, you should never, ever spend more than a dollar. And we have since World War II been spending $1.59 on every dollar that we bring in. Now, that has not been the case in the last 3 years, but the fact is, you…

We will protect Medicare not just for the next election but for the next generation, and so that not only will your mom and dad and grandparents be able to use it, but you and I will be able to use it, and our children and their children…

that is why I think it is so important that we look, always look at the big picture. Mr. Speaker, there is an expression I heard. I wish I could attribute it, I cannot; a second time tonight that I cannot attribute a good quote, but it was…

The only thing about Medicare that is dynamite is when it is misconstrued intentionally for political gain. I have never seen people who just maliciously go out there and lie to the American seniors. I think it is an insult to the…