Jack Kingston

We rejected that. This package, what is so different about it, he sends it back to us. We have 20 days to say yes or no or to modify it or pass part of it or not, but if we do not take action, it is automatically in effect. So the ball is…

That is right. He sends it back, submits it to us. And incidentally, he can say, look, I do like the New York Yankees, and I am going to give them a little bit of sweetener for the shipyard down in Florida, and there is a relationship. So…

Forty-three Governors have it. We have it in our State of Georgia. It has worked effectively. The Governor does not overuse it. But what it does is it puts him back in the process.

Of course, the great American you are speaking of is Ronald Reagan, and he was a man even before he was elected President who talked about the concept of the line-item veto. And the analogy that I have given my voters is just imagine if…

Well, there is certainly a philosophical question that these should probably not be things that the Federal Government is involved in. But more importantly than that, we have got people who have health care emergencies because of the…

You were saying earlier that the number of divisions in the U.S. Army is being scaled back from 18 to about 10. What is happening in the Marines, particularly as respects this program? Because if you do not have the manpower, you do not…

Now, we are also about to consider an emergency budget for the military of about $3.4 billion. Of that, one-half of it is going to come from cutting existing programs. But then the other half of it has already been spent in Somalia, in…

It is ironic because you hear so often about cutting the budget and you hear about the Pentagon waste. You hear all about agriculture waste. And yet the two agencies that have had the biggest budget cuts of all are the Department of…

I am going to have to grab a little time here to say it is also true with the Rangers. Fort Stewart is in the district I represent, the 24th Infantry Division, and my district manager's husband is a Ranger and another employee's husband is…

I guess it is just true that as long as there are people like the gentleman, and some of the others you have mentioned tonight and in the past in your speeches, I think there will always be somebody inside and underneath the dome who is…

In terms of dollars, we had a budget in 1991 of just shy of $300 billion. And now this projection, and I do not know if you or the gentleman from California, Mr. Dornan, had a number, but is it 260?

I say to the gentleman, ``Thank you, Mr. Hunter. I wanted to make sure I got this straight. You were saying earlier that what the President or the administration had said is that we can fight a battle on two fronts, a war on two fronts…

Well, I wanted you to talk about the personnel and so forth in the Army and the Marines staying about level, but the Army going down tremendously. As I understand it, and these numbers are rough, but there were about 2 million troops in…

imagine going to the grocery store to buy your daily fruit, vegetables, and meat, and when you go through the counter the clerk reaches over and sticks some caviar in your grocery cart. And you say, ``I don't want any caviar.'' And he…

I know my time is up, but the thing that Ronald Reagan did, as much as anything, was let you believe in the American dream again. And one of my dreams, my mother was a Republican Party leader for many years, when I was a small boy, one of…

Mr. Speaker, what I want to talk about, something that happened on the mall outside of the Capitol this morning, and that was a celebration of National Day of Women and Girls in Sports. This was an important event for many reasons. There…

I am glad listening to the Democrats that they are finally getting off Newt Gingrich and talking substance on the Contract but as usual it is mostly specious emotional arguments hardly based in reality and it would seem incredible to me…

Just to repeat those numbers again, Congress went from about a 20-to-40-something-percent approval rating because for the first time in recent memory Congress is following through on campaign promises.

It is $3 million in Georgia. It is interesting the party in power in Georgia was even against it, the same party as the White House and those who were pushing it here, so it is really not a partisan issue.

The other thing about this, and there is a work requirement, too, but before we leave this single parent thing, what our society has said, what our Government welfare program has said, is, ``You're a young girl, 17 or 18 years old, and you…

this morning Speaker Gingrich invited Vice President Gore to meet with the Republican Conference on the subject of reinventing the Government. He stood right here at this lectern on the Republican side and talked for nearly an hour about…

We are changing it. You have to establish paternity. What we are saying to these alley-cat dads is, ``Come on home. We are fixing to get serious. We are going to domesticate the alley cat.'' That is what we need to do.

As my colleagues know now, one of the root causes of the crime problem, the explosion of crime particularly in the inner city, is the breakdown of the family. The previous speaker mentioned that there were 15 million children being raised…

And let the municipalities under this bill spend the money as they see fit. They may not need policemen, but they may need police cars. So this gives them that type of flexibility.

Twenty-nine out of 1,000 15- to 17-year-old girls will have a child illegitimately, and when we talk about that 30 percent level, we are not talking 30-year-old Murphy Browns who have a career, and income coming in. We are talking…