Jack Kingston

I would love to. I think that I am touching bases on what the gentleman is saying. When we are increasing the spending per recipient from $4,800 to $6,700, we are clearly not cutting. But what we are doing is ending 'politics as usual.' I…

one thing maybe we can agree on, on a bipartisan basis, is the sugar program. In a Congress where we are revising and cutting and reducing welfare, education, farm programs right and left. We are restructuring Medicare and the School Lunch…

Well, I do think it is also important to point out that there are--there is bipartisan support on it. Now there is some partisan criticism, but we do have a lot of bipartisan support saying, Don't let this thing go broke in 6 years. Let's…

Well, let me now ask Mr. Fox. I used to sell commercial insurance, not health insurance, but commercial insurance, not health insurance, but commercial insurance; very confusing, intangible product. Will my parents, and will I when I turn…

To being a sportcaster, to being a politician, and I hesitate to yield the floor to him. I am going to put on a stopwatch on him, whatever you guys say; so tell us what are the people saying in Arizona. Do they want a budget cut or not?

Let me ask, the folks in Michigan and Pennsylvania, are they saying we are going too far too fast, or all we are doing is passing bills out of the House, they are not doing it in the Senate, we are dead in the water, it is just rhetoric…

So what the people in Michigan are saying is keep going and do not chicken out. What are they saying in Pennsylvania?

I cannot tell you how many tax-funded lobbyist schemes come across our desks in our office every day. You know doggone good and well people are there at taxpayer expense. They are printing the forms and so forth. Billy Joel wrote a song…

When the April 3, 1995, trustees' report came out saying that Medicare was going to go bankrupt, it did not say, "It is going to go bankrupt in 6 years if you pass a tax cut." They just said, "It is going to go bankrupt." They are two…

Let me give you a statistic. The reason why I wanted to mention this is because I want to contrast the 103d Congress to the 104th Congress that the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox] is a Member of. In the 103d Congress, before the…

I have a constituent who wrote, Kenneth Richardson, actually from Atlanta, and he came up with this figure. He said that every minute in the U.S. Government, under their calculations, we waste $2,152,207, and they show what our interest is…

Well, now the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Smith] is on the Committee on the Budget. Why are we doing this at all? I hear some folks in the Congress and Government in Washington saying this is unnecessary to even do anything.

Is it not true that seniors will still be able to keep traditional Medicare if they want to, and I know the gentleman from Michigan has done some work on this?

A lady named Charlie from Denton, TX wrote me and said on the subject of the public debt, which is of course what has been our central theme today, saving money, cutting back on the size of Government and so forth, she says: I'm very upset…

What the Istook amendment is, there are 40,000 different organizations that receive taxpayer funding in the form of grants or direct loans or straight funding. Many of these organizations, and by the way this is to the tune of $39 billion…

Well, I think that the gentleman is walking on the very delicate balance, as you said, between farm programs that work and moving toward an economy that is more free-market oriented, and I know that is a tough road for you. I have some…

I could not sit back and listen to the previous speaker without responding to the American taxpayers. There are 40,000 organizations that receive over $39 billion in taxpayer funded grants and so forth, and they are not subject to public…

tonight we wanted to talk about a number of issues that stand between this Congress, the American taxpayers, and a balanced budget. There is a smorgasbord of issues, of course, that fall in that category. We are going to be touching base…

I think what we want with welfare reform is a program that has a work requirement, if you are able to work, a program that lets States have flexibility, because in Georgia we are going to do it differently than you do in Arizona, different…

I also wanted to mention another way that we can save money on the budget, which is to crack down on illegal aliens entering this country simply because of the generous and almost irresponsible, I think in fact very irresponsible, public…

if we had ideas coming from 435 different Members of Congress from States all over the country, the best product would evolve, and that is what we want to happen because what we want the end product to be is not a Republican plan, not a…

I just find that unbelievable, that somebody would be still arguing about the April trustees' report, when it was offered by Clinton appointees, including Secretaries Shalala, Reich and Rubin, who are all appointed by Clinton. They are his…

I think the point the gentleman has also made on taxes is that in reality we have not passed a tax cut. We have not really passed anything, because the House, while it has done all kinds of work, all kinds of reform legislation to reduce…

What we have done is we have eliminated, where we can, we have consolidated, we have reduced, and, in spending we have increased in others, tried to hold the line on. But, for example, there are 163 different Federal jobs training…

Just to underscore what you are saying, when Price Waterhouse came in to do the audit, it was Price Waterhouse that came in, they could not audit the House books. There were too many old-ball ways of doing business. So too many----