Jack Kingston

Does that mean I get paid what Rush Limbaugh is getting paid? He is an honorary freshman.

the freshman class is a group of normal people who do not want to be President, they do not want to be in the U.S. Senate, they do not want to be here forever, but some of that may happen. But for the time being, they want this, and that…

We have spent a tremendous amount of time reducing spending. Along the way I saw a statistic that we spend $242 million, I think, on one program for bilingual education.

What I replied is that generally what the Republican Party believes up here is believing in people versus believing in Georgia. We support private sector solutions to problems, not Government solutions to problems. We stand for less…

It is ridiculous, because I think the bureaucracy in many, many cases, and even probably in most cases, wants to do the right thing. The problem is these very laws, and we are going from manuals now that have a 4,000, 5,000, 10,000 pages…

I was meeting this last weekend with the Georgia Hospitality and Travel Association. One of the battles they just fought with regulatory reform is that on the back of your hotel door, they have escape plans. I was in the insurance business…

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during the 10 days that we were home for the break, the many constituents that I met with had concerns on a lot of different subjects, budget matters, they are very concerned about us balancing the budget. I said many, many times over the…

Alice Rivlin said today there are other places to cut in the budget. She said where the Republican Party was cutting was idiotic. I am sure there are things that the administration does that the Republican Party and Americans think are…

you know, Sunday is Mothers' Day. I do not remember my mother in the 40 years that I have been her son, worrying about the Federal budget on Mother's Day. I just do not see ourselves sitting around the house and ringing, ``Oh, my goodness…

I would say, what is better, modifying Medicare or losing Medicare? It will be broke under the current Medicare system in 6 years. It is not a matter of let us keep business as usual and avoid changing Medicare. We have got to do that. You…

The figures are right. It is atrocious, your momma is ashamed of you. But if I read that correctly, in the year 2001, the President's budget has a $276 billion deficit. The Kasich Committee on the Budget proposal has a $108 billion…

Is the gentleman suggesting some of these questions are staged? I am highly offended.

Is it not true that if the economic growth is 1 percent over the projected growth rate of 2.1 percent over the next 7 years, because of economic growth, we will reduce the deficit $640 billion because of increased revenues because…

Now, as I recall, one of your statistics was that 87 percent of the people who benefit from the tax reduction make a combined income of $75,000 or less, 87 percent of the American people. Is that true?

Yesterday House Republican leaders introduced our 7-year program to balance the budget. Democrats and liberal critics immediately jumped on it, crying and screaming and insisting there is another way to balance the budget without cutting…

I was just hoping that in your list of winners you would include 87.5 percent of the American people who will benefit from this $500 per child tax credit. It is a pretty significant group in the population of the country that will benefit…

of course, the Democrats and the White House are concerned about the circus coming to town. They hate having the competition. Besides, they might get stomped on by a charging elephant. They already had that experience in November. But have…

Well if the gentleman will yield, there is another key element, and that is the welfare reform. The President did say he would end welfare as we know it, yet never submitted a welfare bill. And so that would mean 5 planks in the 10-plank…

I want to say to the gentlewoman, and learned, and one of the more intelligent Members on the Democrat side, surely you know the wisdom of the chart shown here earlier, saying the bulk of the tax returns go to people who make under $75,000…

Taking back my time, absolutely. In 1980, the total revenue is $500,000. By 1990, it is $8 trillion.

We will time it. I have a chart here. I do not know if you have seen it, but what this one shows clearly is that a lower tax rate actually increases revenue to the Federal budget and also that the economic----

if we could sum up what we have been hearing for the last hour on the floor of the House, I think you could just say Democrats love taxes. Republicans hate taxes. Democrats love big government. Republicans hate big government. Democrats…

I think you can successfully argue that corporations are not going to pay taxes regardless of what the rate is because it is a pass-through cost, just as the gentleman from New Jersey and you have said. It all goes back to the consumer so…

What is also ironic, while he is out saying the Republican welfare reform is mean or inadequate or whatever, not only has he not offered an alternative but then he goes on to talk about our program and how good it is. But he did not use…