Jack Kingston

it appears that the Democrats are confused again. There is nothing unusual there. But on the WIC program, I do not know if they have read the bill. Had they read the bill, they would know that WIC is fully funded at $3.7 billion, a…

Who said it was going bankrupt? I want to make sure. Let us go back to April 3, 1995, the Medicare trustees report.

Is it not true that run by the Government the student loan program lost $1 billion, but run by the private sector it did not lose any of the money?

In fact, if the gentleman would yield, as I recall the numbers, we went from $89 billion to over $140 billion for health care for the poor, or Medicaid.

If the gentleman will pause a minute to go back to why touch Medicare. It is the political equivalent of messing with dynamite with a lit fuse. Politically, you always take the path of least resistance. If you can avoid a controversial…

I think the gentleman has answered that very eloquently. The bottom line is, we American people can spend our money better than bureaucrats in Washington can. Let American people keep more of their own savings. They will create jobs, more…

it is a great pleasure to be with you tonight and discuss the many issues that are facing the 105th Congress. One of the things that we will be voting on very soon is the supplemental appropriations bill. That is a fancy word for a bill…

This is what we are paid and elected to do and that is to act in a responsible manner and as the report indicated the other day, I believe, Medicare today is losing $36 million each and every day.

I want to speak about the budget. Before I do so, I want to speak about the big bust over there at the Department of Justice. I am referring, of course, to finally, on Thursday, April 24, I am getting this out of the Savannah Morning News…

a little over 2 years ago, on April 3, 1995, the Medicare trustees, who are appointed by President Clinton and other folks, but it is a bipartisan committee, they came out with their report, and the trustees' report 2 years ago said…

It is too bad that in Washington you can always demagog out of fear and you can get reelected through race-baiting or scaring seniors or saying that children are going to be starved on the streets. It is an old tactic. Last year, before…

Because the Government is the reason that land is higher, and yet the Government is going to pay the higher cost, which it costs.

Let me ask my colleague on the subject of imports, so not only are we subsidizing large, corporate American sugar growers, but we are also, if I hear the gentleman correct, subsidizing foreign sugar growers; is that correct?

Is it not true that we import 100 percent or 99 percent of our tea, which is true, we do not grow tea domestically? Many people have said we have to preserve the American supplier because we cannot be dependent. But I think the reality is…

Well, the gentleman who has worked so hard on it, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Miller] do you believe you had mentioned that the President is a lot closer now? It is not an election year, we do not hear the demagoguery. Are we in the…

Mr. Speaker, tonight is the eve of the trustees report on Medicare. Each year the trustees who are appointed, three of them by the President of the United States, give a state of affairs on Medicare, how it is doing, how much money it is…

Is the gentleman meaning to tell me that Ford Motor Co. or IBM or Wal-Mart, their health care has not been going up as much as Government-run health care?

You know, though, I hear this in our town meetings on Medicare with seniors all the time is that the fraud and abuse, the sloppiness in billing is just unbelievable. My dad has diabetes, and he has macular degeneration, so he is legally…

In fact, there is a candy cane company in Georgia who tells me that the biggest competitor is not in the candy cane business, the biggest competitor is the U.S. Government, who makes it so that they have to buy sugar at an inflated price…

And then let me ask the gentleman this question, are there non-American citizens participating in the sugar program, and are they getting paid to do that?

here is a budget that has been proposed from the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Neumann], one of the members of the committee. His budget excludes Social Security revenue and, as the gentleman knows, Mr. Speaker, Social Security is mixed in…

Well, it is interesting. You mentioned that a friend of mine sells bandages to Medicare suppliers, and it is kind of a cross between the regular bandage and a gauze bandage, and it is more sophisticated than an ordinary bandage but is no…

Let me ask the gentleman, it costs the American consumers the difference in the world price versus the domestic price, but does it cost you in taxes?

Let me ask the gentleman, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich] has been negotiating with the White House in good faith since January. And his analogy is, it is like selling a house to somebody. They say I like your floor plan, I like your…

It is interesting as we look at these things. I want to talk to the gentleman about the budget. When he says the taxpayers are paying, one of the things that they have to pay for is the administration of this ridiculous program. Another…