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  • TIME FOR CONGRESS TO GET OUR HOUSE IN ORDER
    May 11, 2011  - Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, can you imagine in your household, if, for every $1 you spent, 40 cents was borrowed? That's the situation we're in with every dollar that we spend in the U.S. Congress today. And yet there are those who do not want to reform or change. But if I brought in my family and sa... More
  • Peeling Back ObamaCare
    May 3, 2011  - Mr. KINGSTON. I thank the gentleman, and wanted to speak in support of H.R. 1214 for three reasons. Number one, we have got to remember that we are now in our third year of a $1.6 trillion deficit. That's right. The Obama administration has now put us in our third year of a deficit of $1.6 trillion.... More
  • Come Together For the Next Generation
    Apr 5, 2011  - Mr. Speaker, America is at a huge crossroads right now. We're in a situation that whenever we spend $1, 40 cents of it is borrowed. Our national debt is about 95 percent of our GDP. We are losing our edge as a global leader. It hurts our job creation, it smothers the private sector, and it denies yo... More
  • Balancing The Budget
    Mar 15, 2011  - Mr. Speaker, can you imagine in your household if, for every $1 you spent, 40 cents was borrowed? Can you imagine if you were in that situation and didn't change your buying or your spending habits? That would be absurd. Yet that's what the U.S. Congress is doing. We've had a debate on a spending re... More
  • Floor Statement on Budget
    Mar 14, 2011  - Mr. Speaker, in the classic movie by Frank Capra called ``It's a Wonderful Life,'' the main character, the hero, played by Jimmy Stewart, contemplated the question of what would the world be like if you had not have lived. In his case, what would his town have been like. And I think that's the quest... More
  • Floor Statement on the Budget Battle
    Mar 9, 2011  - Mr. Speaker, what is the budget battle about? It is about our country; it is about our kids; and it is about our freedom. Imagine if you were borrowing 40 cents for every $1 that you spent in your household. You would change your purchasing habits. That's what this battle is about. Do we want to lea... More
  • Floor Statement on the Need for Fiscal Responsibility
    Mar 1, 2011  - Mr. Speaker, imagine in your own household if, for every dollar you spent, 40 cents was borrowed. Obviously, you would sit down with your family at the kitchen table and say, Okay, for every dollar we spend, 40 cents is borrowed. We're going to have to change our purchasing habits. That's what Ameri... More
  • Floor Statement on Short Term Spending Bill
    Mar 1, 2011  - Mr. KINGSTON. I thank the chairman for the time. Madam Speaker, I want to make three very important points right off the bat: Number one, our debt is almost at 95 percent of the GDP. It's the highest debt we have ever had in history. Last year alone the deficit was $1.5 trillion. We are borrowing 40... More
  • Floor Statement on Amendment to Withhold Taxpayer Funding from the United Nations
    Feb 18, 2011  - I'm sitting here hearing what a wonderful organization the U.N. is, and I can't help but wonder: Where in the heck were they during Rwanda? Where were they? I would love to yield the floor to anybody out there. You know, that was the most miserable failure and genocide that the world has seen in mod... More
  • Floor Statement on Beach Renourishment Funding
    Feb 18, 2011  - I want to say to my friend from Athens, Georgia, where you do not have beaches, you know that the local share, once the Corps of Engineers does a cost-benefit analysis, which it always does, there is a requirement the State and the local government kick in. The State gives a pretty good amount of mo... More