Jack Kingston

I do not think anybody paying taxes back home would disagree with that. It is also inefficient. What really happens, though, I know there are a lot of good people involved in government, elected and unelected. A lot of good folks are…

One of the current regulations that water systems have to operate under requires small systems that use ground water to test for contaminants that are only found in surface water systems. So here we have EPA, taxpayer funded, requiring…

Yes, but I still like rock and roll and do so any chance I get. I just do not want my 13-year-old daughter to know about it.

with middle-class families paying 38 to 44 percent of family income in taxes, the claim that the era of big Government is over is utterly absurd. Think about it: 38 to 44 percent of middle-class family income goes to taxes. That means that…

And with the Federal presence, guidance, and oversight, but not necessarily Washington bureaucratic micromanagement. Now, I think probably the biggest failure of the Washington bureaucracy to manage a problem is local poverty control. You…

Let us talk about some of these basically Republican solutions, but they are anti-Washington bureaucrat solutions, some of the things that I think that we have been trying to work for: more choice in medicare, a balance in environmental…

If this newfound embracing of reform by the liberals in this House were so genuine, where was it during their long years of domination of this institution, their complicity with the forces of big government and the forces that would always…

You two are exceptionally brilliant. Four hundred thirty-five Members, I can almost promise you that 90 percent of us do not know that. But don't you think that is relevant to the people in Arizona and Indiana, that they do not spring…

The gentlewoman had mentioned also about some of the putting common sense into some of the environmental laws. One of the things that happened in California that we know of, Riverdale, California, the endangered kangaroo rat. Now, you…

Now, one of the things I hear, and you mentioned earlier on the Superfund, is that Superfund is 15 years old. We have spent $25 billion on it and yet we have only cleaned up 12 percent of the national priority polluted sites.

None of that money was raised in your district. It all came out of Washington, DC from special interest groups.

let me conclude with this. Last week a teacher in Darien, Georgia told me that in an 8-hour day she spends two to three hours filling our paperwork, about 50 percent of it is for the Federal Government. That is 10 to 15 hours a week that…

Our friend Frank Luntz uses this illustration. Do you know that the State of Indiana does not participate in daylight savings time? They do not spring forward and fall backward.

Over 15 years we have spent $25 billion on environmental cleanup and only cleaned up 12 percent of the sites.

I understand that translates to about 43 cents on the dollar going to the cost of litigation. Now, it does not matter where you are on the environmental debate, we all should come together and say this is broken and we need to fix it.

I find it amazing that last year the group that wanted to nationalize health care has taken exception with the Republican Party because we want to go beyond the portability issue. What is it that we want to do that we disagree? Medical…

I find it appalling that the Democrats would bring in this special interest thing. The integrity of the debate; is it possible to have a honest debate any more at all? I mean if my colleagues want to talk about special interests, read…

when it comes to this health care debate, we have to ask ourselves: What are the Washington liberal Democrats afraid of? Why are the Democrats so anticonsumer choice? Why are they so against power to the people? Why are they doing…

I want to emphasize what the gentleman is saying by pointing out that President Theodore Roosevelt started the National Park System, and, of course, he was a great Republican at the time.

What is so important is that the average family in the 1950's paid 3 percent and today pays 24 percent in Federal income taxes. When you add in the other taxes, State and local taxes, the average middle-class family pays about 25-percent…

we wanted to touch base on the tax situation, with April 15 approaching quickly. I will yield to the gentleman from Arizona on this, but I want to start off with a couple of fun facts, first, about out tax system, because if you are like…

What is important though is we bring our laws up with our technology and bring our laws up with other levels of government to realize that when the Environmental Protection Agency started in the very early 1970's, it was just about the…

I think it is important really when we do have a dialog to be factual about it. We have been accused of cutting student loans, and yet our budget calls for increasing student loans from $24 to $36 billion. We have been accused of cutting…

If you take, say, a wading pool that kids are in, not a swimming pool but a wading pool, the little blue, pink plastic kind, and you pour a gallon of pesticide in there, then back in the 1930s, that is what they detect. But today, if you…

If you look back 2 years ago, which was my first term in Washington, and think about the changes, in 1993 the President had just passed the largest tax increase in the history of the country and then turned around and tried to nationalize…