Jack Kingston

I would like to enter into a colloquy with the distinguished chairman. Mr. Chairman, I thank you for including language in this bill that would remove current barriers for States to strengthen the unemployment insurance program through…

I thank the Chairman. The REINS Act provides powerful, commonsense regulatory reform. It reins in the costly overreach of Federal agencies that stifles job creation and slows economic growth. If we want to have jobs, we have to help the…

I think there are four things the United States of America needs to do to turn the economy around. Number one, we need to balance the budget. We can do this on a bipartisan basis just by reducing the duplications in government and the…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia. An amendment to the United States Constitution should never be taken lightly. It is a sacred and profound document. Well, 15 years ago when Mr. Goodlatte and I and a number of others first came to town…

I thank Chairman Rogers for the time. I've enjoyed working with him and Ranking Member Dicks, and also the ranking member of our Subcommittee on Agriculture, FDA, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the gentleman from California, Mr…

I think there are three things that we need to do in America in order to increase jobs and economic growth. Number one, we've got to drill our own oil. If you drive a car or if you use goods and services that come to you by a vehicle using…

Last year the brains over at the EPA, in all their wisdom, came out with the conclusion that since milk comes from animal fat and fat has oil in it, therefore milk is a hazardous substance. And so if a dairy farmer has a spill in a milk…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, Americans have had to tighten their belts. All around the country, American families have had to decide what is important to them and to divide their needs from their wants. Washington…

These cuts are real. They are measurable. This is what the American people need to know, something that is accountable. This puts in place a 10-year budget. The United States Senate, under Harry Reid's leadership, has not had a budget in 3…

How can he say to the seniors of America, I might not be able to pay you your Social Security, and then not offer a plan? Well, God bless the Speaker, and God bless the people who have, in good faith, engaged in this discussion and offered…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I must begin, Mr. Speaker, by asking, do you have the President's plan? Or perhaps, do any of the Democrats over there have the President's plan? I keep hearing that this plan is not a good one; it's not…

Our guest chaplain today is Mr. Rick Postell from Brunswick, Georgia. Rick is a native of Gastonia, North Carolina, and received his BS in business management from Troy State University and later a master's degree in theology from Beacon…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for yielding. During his 8 years as President, President Bush increased the national debt $3 trillion. We spent too much money. But not to be outdone, in a 3-year period of time, President Obama has…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. After a 3-year spending spree in which the President drove up the national debt 56 percent, he has the nerve to tell the American people to eat their peas. After he has been on this supersize-me diet, he…

This is the plan: cut, cap, and balance. And this is the President's plan: speeches. That's all we're getting, no legislation whatsoever. I'll be glad to yield to my friend from Maryland. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman…

After a 3-year spending spree in which the President drove up the national debt by 56 percent, the President has the nerve to tell the American people that they have to eat their peas. This from a President who has had the Federal…

Reclaiming my time, you've got to go fast because I'm willing to answer your question but I can't----

I agree with you. By law we need to have a balanced budget amendment so that Congress' hands will be tied from increasing the deficit.

The President has backed us up against the wall. If we don't do something serious and, yes----

And Mr. Visclosky's support as well. I yield back the balance of my time. Amendment Offered by Mr. Reed

I thank the gentleman. Then I am hearing that the subcommittee has fulfilled the body's intent to ensure all funding lines related to the SSBN(X) Ohio replacement nuclear program are allocated to the required amount. I thank the gentleman…

Reclaiming my time, I thank the chairman for that. Just to be abundantly sure, in order to ensure that there's no confusion within the Department of Energy and Naval Reactors, is it true that the prototype development for this new and…

I thank the gentleman. And I want to point out that the Ohio replacement nuclear reactor development program was identified specifically by line item within the Naval Reactor Section and allocated a full $121.3 million specifically for the…

I want to ask my friend from New Jersey to engage in a colloquy. The purpose of it is to talk about the nuclear prototype. As you know, and as the ranking member knows and the full committee ranking member, Mr. Dicks, knows, the Ohio class…

I think that the point you have raised is a very valid point and something that is very good discussion matter. Unfortunately, we believe that it is authorizing on an appropriation, as the Chair has confirmed, but that's probably the…