Jack Kingston

we are about to go home for a work recess. There are a lot of issues that Congress is dealing with, some that we have not addressed that I look forward to addressing when we get back, some of the environmental issues, the defense issues…

one of the great stories and, I think, an unwritten story in the United States of America has to do with volunteerism. We often talk about volunteerism, but yet it really is an entity in itself. As we in Congress and in State legislatures…

I think the gentleman is correct. I have heard it said many times that while the United States cannot afford to be the policeman of the world, if there is to be one, let it be the United States, because we have always been a peace loving…

On the subject of regulation and Government overkill, I understand right now the average family pays about $4,000 a year more in all total goods and services purchased simply because of the additional cost of regulation, anywhere from, you…

yes, it is efficient to swat a fly with a sledgehammer when you are talking about saving lives. That is how the American military has been successful throughout the years.

I wanted to talk about the impact of health care on small businesses and the family. I think it is so important that we talk about the family more. The central theme behind that debate was, will this make life better for our students and…

I wanted to relate a old hunting story. We were talking about selling technologies to our suspected enemies. There is a great and illustrative joke, the story of a hunter who was out hunting when it was cold. He found a frozen snake, and…

I want to speak on the State of California and this whole issue of really mandates on employers, because that is what we are talking about. It is not the 80/20 split. It is just one more mandate, more Government intrusion. But there was a…

I have read during the course of this year ``The Last Line,'' part II, by William Manchester, which is a biography of Winston Churchill, and the book actually took place from about 1920 to 1939. During that period of time, of course…

on Saturday, March 5, I was honored to participate in a change of command ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Canopus [AS 34] which is a submarine tender assigned to the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in my district. As Admiral Ellis, the base…

I rise today in honor of St. Patrick and the Irish-Americans of Savannah, GA, who are at this moment winding up a very long day of green grits, green biscuits, green beer, and one of the largest St. Patrick's Day parades in the world. In…

I just want to say, sadly, that is what has been going on in the U.S. Congress since 1969 when we had our last balanced budget. And I point out to them while there is a lot of partisan politics in Congress, this is not a problem that you…

I think it is interesting to point out that the tax simplification bill of 1986 was 491 pages long. This bill is 1,392 pages long, and I do not know too many people who do their own taxes. We have tax simplification, and yet many of the…

I want to throw something in. I was an economics major in college. I did my senior year term paper on the Russian agriculture system. I wish I could remember all the statistics, but the Government collective farms, which basically the…

I know the gentleman from New York wants to talk about the budget, and we are going to yield the floor in a minute. But we need to pound that nail very deep into the wood of thinking here, because when we talk about it, here is a quote…

The beauty of the MediSave account is that it cuts out the middle man, the big insurance companies and all the bureaucracies are out of it. You go directly to the source. You make your purchase at the point of purchase, and you pay for it…

according to a new poll, 8 in 10 Americans fear the quality of their health care will decline under the Clinton health care plan. That is 80 percent, and the American people are right. The Clinton plan, with its farfetched global budget…

In the real world situation, we all agree that we need to kill a fly with a sledge hammer, because that is the way to save the most lives and not have the highest casualties. You are saying we have a potential problem in Korea with the…

I wanted to also just throw into that discussion the fact that if you look at the record of home schoolers, and there are statistics on this, they have a low dropout rate, very low teenage pregnancy rate, high college placement level, high…

I think it is important for people to realize that right now something like 22 to 24 percent of the prisoners in the Federal penal system are illegal immigrants, and that goes exactly into what the gentleman is saying that they many times…

You have been in the cockpit. My question to you is, we have got the mechanical problem. We have the financial problem. But what about the morale problem? What does it do to a pilot, when he or she is put there in this machine worrying…

I would like to ask you some more details about that procurement, because one of the things I am concerned about, and maybe the gentleman from San Diego can talk about this a little bit, but the situation with the maintenance worries me…

Madam Speaker, one of the points I wanted to make along that line is to have an effective military one of the things that, of course, we did with Desert Storm is, when we were dropping bombs down chimney chutes, it was doing more than…

I was impressed, and I also spent a lot of time at Fort Stewart with the 24th Infantry Division... I am just so proud... to shake hands with these folks when they were coming off the plane.

in Georgia we have 28,000 illegal immigrants, and we are not a border State in the sense of California or Texas... $14 billion to $15 billion each year is lost directly as a result of our liberal public assistance programs going to illegal…