Jack Kingston

Essentially, when we talk about Social Security, is what seniors are saying, is protect it from general highway appropriations, or AmeriCorps, or the NEA, or whatever the folks want to spend money on; just use the Social Security money…

So are farmers, so are veterans and so are business people. Somehow, Washington does not get the message. Sometimes they get beat around up here, as you do, people come to the office, you have to vote, and you are darned if you do and…

I share the Democrats' concern for some movement on campaign finance reform. As a Member of Congress, I have supported campaign finance reform, but to hear them talk about it is similar to hearing Al Capone talk about the need to crack…

Today, April 15, brings terror across the land to all kinds of Americans who have spent hours and hours filling out their tax forms, Americans who want to pay their fair share, Americans who know April 15 is coming on, and yet, at the same…

What is wrong is to lie to the American people and say something is a cut when it is not a cut. The Republican Medicare proposal last year increased Medicare funding $190 billion to $270 billion. That is not a cut. Now, if my colleagues on…

I am really disturbed about these Democrats. Apparently they are taking their paychecks and they are not working. What is it with my colleagues? My friends on the other side of the aisle all should be out having town meetings, visiting…

a couple of years ago I made the difficult decision to fly home a little bit early from Washington to return to Savannah, GA, to see my 5-year-old's kindergarten graduation. I got on what can only be described as the flight from hell. I…

I am certain it was when Jimmy Carter was President, and so let us just say thereabouts. But what is interesting, during that same period of time that we have had this absolute explosion in programs, which has also taken away the…

We have an example in Savannah, GA, which I mentioned to Mr. Hoekstra about, of a weight lifting coach named Michael Cone who actually had been an Olympic weight lifter, and he went to work in the school, worked in the school system for 10…

let me just say, I appreciate the gentleman from Pennsylvania and the gentleman from Michigan for letting me join them this evening, and I do agree with the title of the gentleman from Michigan's newsletter. We have two missions here, one…

On that subject, I am fascinated with the hard work the gentleman has done in his subcommittee because you have certainly been all over the country. One of the stories the gentleman came out with is that the Federal Government has a kitty…

I know the gentleman has done a lot of study on the U.S. Department of Education, how big it is, but before we get to that I want to mention another bureaucracy that has 111,000 employees, and that is the IRS. Listen to this story that was…

Here is another interesting statistic. From 1954 to 1994, the number of words in the section of the IRS code relating just to income taxes, not all the other taxes but just to income taxes went from less than 200,000 to over 800,000. In…

One of the great parts about this job is that we do get lots of students come and visiting our offices and I am always inspired. It is interesting that there are a lot of folks who are down on students, but I look at the kids who are in…

The gentleman in your newsletter, and I am attributing everything to you that I am plagiarizing here, but you pointed out in Washington, DC, a 57-year-old grandmother who started a program called Children of Mine, and the program in…

This is none other from the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary Henry Cisneros, created rules regarding pet ownership by the elderly and disabled in public housing. It says under section 5.350: In the case of cats and…

Would the revenue from capital gains taxes go up because there were more transactions, because people no longer hoarded their money but they went back into the marketplace and traded goods?

I am not on the Joint Economic Committee, and quite often I see their 30- and 40-page documents, and I have difficulty reading them; but I was an economics major at the University of Georgia and one of the things that we often did with…

OK, 55 percent. So if you have an estate of $3 million, when you die Uncle Sam is going to get half of it. Not your children, not your grandchildren, not your friends, not a charity, but Uncle Sam. You talk to people about that, they do…

This is about economic prosperity, creating an American dream that is accessible for everybody where the unemployed can get a job, get on the economic ladder and go out and share in the American dream through upward mobility. We are…

as a father of four kids, I have Betsy who is 13, John who is 11, and I have Ann who is 8 and Jim who is 6, I am very, very concerned about their future. We are working real hard with them on their homework, teaching them math and English…

That if Mr. Cunningham's jet was flying overhead at the speed of sound and spewing out a roll of dollar bills behind it, the plane would have to fly for more than 15 years before it wheeled out $1.6 trillion, and I do not think you have…

if the American people, let us just say, had $50 more in their pocket because the Federal Government did not take that money, we confiscate it now, but if we left $50 more in the pockets of, say, 200 million Americans, that would be…

First of all, let me say, we want to talk about the IRS. The criticism is not to the employees, the criticism is to the system. Right now, that system has a Tax Code that is two volumes total and 1,378 pages. It is an IRS that has 480 tax…

In Washington we have an administration that loves big government and talks about the big government being over with. Yet in the State of the Union Address, I think there were introduced 123 new spending programs. The American people are…