Jack Kingston

No hugs for thugs. They need to be in an institution, which we call the big house back home, or pay restitution. I do not know what they call it on Ohio, but you need to have people in jail. They have broken the law. We have decided in…

So as I understand that, if you find the gun but for some reason the investigating officer did not have the warrant perfected, maybe some little technical wording problem, you cannot use the gun as evidence, which is ridiculous. This says…

It is interesting you put crime and welfare right on top of each other because there is no question they are very related. The situation that we are in as a society is, we are not free if we cannot walk down the streets of America without…

I heard a statistic this morning I thought that was interesting. There are 39,000 municipalities in this great country of ours. Eighty percent of them are populations below 10,000, and 48 percent have populations below 1,000. We sit up…

Here we are, 30 years later, $3 trillion later, and here is a definition of a trillion: ``If you spent a hundred thousand dollars a minute 24 hours a day, it would take 19 years to get to one trillion.'' We have spent $3 trillion starting…

I am sick and tired, as I know my colleagues are, because of the police officers actually being treated like criminals by the lawyers when they get in these courtrooms. The police officers are the men and women who are out there on the…

last week, when we passed the balanced budget amendment, we took a good step not only toward fulfilling campaign promises, but also for working with each other as Democrats and Republicans because there are about 70 to 80 Democrats who…

what a great week last week was. The House took a major and crucial step toward fiscal responsibility by passing the balanced budget amendment. If the Senate does the same, then fiscal restraint will be the law of the land. But also…

all right, let us talk about Social Security. In 1993, the first year your Democrat President was in office, the Democrat Party, without one vote from the Republican side, raised taxes on Social Security. Then in the same legislation, the…

last night President Clinton gave a great marching speech. Left-right, left-right, left-right. At times he was Reagan, at times he was Dukakis. But in the end it was the same old stuff, the White House weather vane rides again. In the…

One final question. If this bill passes, and I as a rapist move from Georgia to California, under this bill, when it becomes law, will I still be tracked, with or without the amendment?

you know, each month, sometimes at the beginning of the month, sometimes at the end of the month, but surely during the course of the month, the American middle-class families must sit down and assess their finances, and as a result of…

If I understand the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Kanjorski], if I move from Georgia to California as a rapist, under the crime bill then very soon, when everything is promulgated and the rules are in place, I will be tracked, is that…

Again, just to do my duty to the constituents back home, particularly victims of crime, what I am concerned about, if a rapist moves from Georgia to California under current law, he is not tracked. Under the crime bill, he will be tracked…

You know, if you cannot argue substance, attack the person; if you cannot argue substance, you make outrageous and frivolous claims; and if you cannot argue substance, you throw out smokescreens and red herrings. That is what seems to be…

kind of a disturbing thing happened this week in so many ways that makes me wonder if the folks at the White House get it yet. The President appointed a very liberal member of the Washington political establishment to run the National…

Well, to my friend, I would say that if we can get their vote on the Stenholm amendment, that is a good positive step. I, as you know, am not part of the party leadership over here. Although I do support the Republican version with the…

As taxes increase, as government regulations get more and more burdensome, as the bureaucracy becomes more and more expensive, America's middle class has had to tighten their belts. Even though they are out there working as hard as they…

over the work week that we just had many people asked me, ``With the changing of the leadership of the Ways and Means Committee, is health care dead or is the Clinton plan dead?'' And I said, ``No, we have 435 Members of Congress. There is…

In Congress, when we say there is no increase in spending, we simply mean there is not going to be as much of an increase as projected. When we say there is going to be a cut, what we mean is there is going to be a decrease in the…

What do the legislation regarding the assault-rifle ban and the Clinton tax increase have in common? Two things. Both of them failed. Neither had the requisite number of votes to pass in the allocated 15-minute voting period. But the…

My friend, Lois Van Ryn Stock, turned 40 on Monday, and in so many ways Lois epitomizes the best of baby boomers. She is bright, intelligent, ambitious, attractive, and of high moral fiber. Yet she also symbolizes the tragedy of baby…

435 out of 435 Members of Congress seem to agree that Americans need a tough crime bill. But is the pending legislation tough? We know this: It does not allow pretrial detention. It does not have truth in sentencing. It increases the…

Tomorrow as we begin the very important debate on a very important bill in Congress, there is an amendment that I plan to support and I urge my colleagues to support, and that is the one offered by the gentleman from Florida [Mr…

in 1970, I had one of my first jobs. I was in the 9th grade. I sold programs at the University of Georgia football games. They were a dollar each. I made big money. We got a 10-percent commission. And I was coming back from one game…