Jack Kingston

I just want to say what I believe has happened from the investors' standpoint is, trying to encourage private investment and getting into an airport, they felt like they had a certain agreement with Customs and that Customs, in the later…

here is what I hear from Democrat after Democrat: We want welfare reform, but we----

Let me ask the gentleman this, though, in terms of individual union members who are not necessarily buying the big labor union Democrat embrace, should they not have the right to know where their dues are going? For example, here is a…

Absolutely. I did not want to derail it by just coming out. But the Democrats had a reform bill, Republican freshmen had a reform bill in the 103rd previous Congress. Then if I recall correctly, the Democrats controlled the House, the…

I truly believe anybody who contributes to a PAC needs to know to the dollar where that money went. So I am in complete agreement with you on that.

Let the record be clear that the Senate and the House were controlled by Democrats for the 2-year period of time. The House Republicans have been working on campaign finance reform on a bipartisan basis for some time now, and one of the…

That is a good question. Reclaiming the time, this is the way I understand it as a student of campaign finance reform. In 1972, when PAC's started because of the large, individual contributor, the gentleman may remember the man, he was in…

I would love to have campaign finance reform and lobbying reform, because I think they are twin sisters. I think it should be one bill.

Well, now, the bill that I have cosponsored with the gentleman from Tennessee, Zach Wamp, which is a bipartisan bill, does put individual limits on there. We do not want anybody or any organization to have undue influence. Taking your…

I got a call last night from a gentleman, a father from Pennsylvania, had two kids, and I could tell he was a lot like my middle-class friends back home, struggling to make the ends meet. And he just left a message, ``Please keep us in…

reclaiming my time, absolutely, because the 103d Congress, as the gentlewoman remembers, was majority Democrat, as was the Senate in the 103d Congress; and had the Democrat leadership wanted to pass the Accountability Act in the 103d…

A year ago, Mr. Speaker, we in this Congress, the 104th Congress, had passed 30 out of 31 parts of the Contract With America, and all of these were designed to reduce the size of government, to decrease taxes, to cut wasteful spending, to…

the gentleman from Texas, speaking 10 minutes before the gentlewoman, went out of his way to say the Speaker Gingrich fought the gift ban. Well, there is not a bigger misrepresentation of the facts I have heard in the last 24 hours. I have…

it is interesting how we are hearing all these speeches tonight on Democrats calling for bipartisan support, and then all they are doing is bashing Republicans. I hardly think their discussions go beyond anything but political rhetoric, so…

I think that the point is that the declination in the size of the bureaucracy is the will of the American people, and it is necessitated by the fact that we have a deficit and a national debt of almost $5 trillion. The deficit on an annual…

I thought of a good way to find out who hired Craig Livingstone. Livingstone, as my colleagues will remember, is the Gore campaign political operative who went to work in the White House and proceeded to illegally review the FBI files of…

one of the things I hear over and over again from teachers in the classroom, and I visit lots of schools, is that they have too much of their day-to-day routine dictated out of Washington. This type of amendment reduces the influence of…

One of the examples I like to point out in terms of the Federal registration, which is the book of all the Federal regulations, and so forth, it has grown from 41,000 pages 10 years ago to 68,000 pages today, and we have over 130,000…

Is it not true this procedure is so gruesome that the extremists who are against the legislation did not want to allow the sponsor to have a postor, a chart that actually showed the procedure, and they tried to vote not to allow it on the…

I had a town meet in the little town of Darien, GA. A teacher came there and she said, you know, each week, or each day I spend 2 to 3 hours on paperwork, most of it for the Federal Government. Now, that is 2 to 3 hours a day, equaling 10…

There comes a point when the mule cannot pull the load anymore. Mr. Speaker, let us talk about welfare. The President promised to end welfare as we know it, never introduced a bill when the Democrats held the Senate and the House, and yet…

It is correct. I think, there again, the President was acting from an extreme point. There is nothing extreme about requiring able-bodied people to work. There is nothing extreme about discontinuing permanent benefits for illegal aliens or…

All I will say about that Federal judge is he obviously wanted to go to hell and he did not want to wait in line. I think it is real important that we understand that what we are trying to do is just get decisionmaking out of Washington…

The question is who hired Mr. Livingston, and he is the political operative who illegally obtained over 900 FBI files on private citizens and invaded their privacy by looking into those files illegally, and has yet to give us an…

One of the things about welfare, in preparation for Father's Day I was doing some research and found out that police departments unfortunately use as an indicator of crime in the neighborhood, not the drug use and not the location or the…