Jack Kingston

sometimes I do not know why we as government bureaucracies just do not think. There was a case of a school district that spent, listen to this, over $1,000 to obtain a government grant that had a $13 value. They used it to park their bus…

these are senior citizens who lived through the Depression. They are frugal. The gentleman is talking about my dad. He was raised in Brooklyn, NY. He fought and he saved, and because of the results of foregoing some pleasures and…

we have to have child-centered education. Right now the Washington, DC school district spends, I think it is about $10,000 per child because I know that Utah is the lowest in the country at about $3,400 and Washington, DC is the highest in…

That is absolutely ridiculous. As a result, the American middle class families now pay an average of 24 percent just in Federal income taxes, compared to their counterparts 20 years ago, who paid about 16 percent, and 30 years ago they…

I strongly believe that that is the technology that we are moving toward rather than having every gizmo that comes out of IBM, and so forth. But the beauty of it is that these laptops are sponsored by businesses who want to get the kids to…

let me give the gentleman a statistic that was sent to me by my friend, a Dr. Whitaker of Warner Robins, GA. In 1913 when the original income tax went into effect, if you had an income of $20,000, your tax rate was 1 percent. If you…

I want to make sure that you understand. You are talking about your child and my child, and any parent out here in America hearing this should pay attention. Children will be having to pay an 80 to 83-percent tax rate just to sustain the…

Let us talk about 1969 for a minute. In 1969, Jimi Hendrix was probably coming out with ``Are You Experienced?'' That was his album. The Beatles, I think, were coming out with the White Album. They had just probably found Paul. There was…

on the subject of campaign finance reform, I think there is a difference between enacting the laws that are in place and passing new laws to make it appear that there is a problem. There may be changes that are needed in our campaign…

98 percent of the deficit reduction allegedly comes in the last 2 years. Well, that would be well beyond the current administration's service in the White House. So there is absolute hypocrisy in such a budget to call it a balanced budget…

What I wanted to talk about a little bit is the budget and the budget process, the situation that we are in, because recently the Senate Democrats voted down the balanced budget amendment. All the balanced budget amendment really said is…

as a father of four children I certainly share the concern that so many people have expressed about our children. That is why I am hoping that many Members on that side will join us in the passage of a balanced budget amendment. As we…

I wanted to show this chart, which apparently the previous speaker might not have read the bill, but it does show clearly that the Republican plan, which is a reaction to the Clinton trustees saying that Medicare is going bankrupt, our…

to the middle class in America, there is one question now: Are you working longer and harder and have less to show for it? Are you concerned that, while you may be better off than your parents were, will your children be better off than…

let me say this to my friend from New Jersey. If he truly believes that information, which obviously his speech writer was inhaling when he wrote, then I would like to challenge him here and now for a debate on the environment on the House…

two more ridiculous big government taxes have been put out by the Clinton administration this week. The first one is under the name of safety in the workplace as respects violence. This is an OSHA proposal, the Occupational Safety and…

I ask the American people, are you working harder and harder every day, every month, every year, and having less to show for it? Are you concerned that your children will not be better off than you are? Are you worried that they will not…

I wanted to talk tonight a little bit about the growing debate about the drug war and talk about some of the things that this Congress has done to combat the drug problem in America and the youth. I think there are two things that we need…

aren't election year politics fun? Here yesterday President Clinton, following Bob Dole's lead, agreed to sign the Republican welfare bill. And then following Clinton, who was following Dole, 68 Democrats changed their vote from less than…

can my colleagues see the absurdity of this Congress and this Nation having a debate such as this: ... It is absurd for people who cannot come up with an intellectual argument to come back to that same old line: mean-spiritedness. This is…

I would certainly be remiss in my duty if I did not brag on and recognize four of our First District of Georgia heroes that led the safety efforts in last Saturday's early morning Centennial Park explosion in the Olympics in Atlanta. The…

Yes, they are, because under the liberal Washington definition of rich, that means you hold a job and you pay taxes. You know another thing: marriage tax penalty. Two people living together doing everything that a married couple does pay…

I do want to get one other thing on taxes. There was a big discussion about the Clinton tax increase went to balancing the budget 1993, when Clinton passed the largest tax increase in the history of America, $245 billion. That money did…

If you will remember the biblical story about the tower of Babel, the story is that the villagers decided to build a tower to heaven. And the Lord did not want that done and, as a preemptive measure, gave them all different languages. And…

Our compassion does not rule out common sense, and we have to just put a little bit more common sense in it. Just as we have said, we are going to address this illegal immigration, this English-first issue. This Congress is going to move…