Jack Kingston

Mr. KINGSTON

Mr. KINGSTON. Does the gentleman from Michigan have any closing comments?

Mr. KINGSTON. Gentlemen, any final words on Medicare or reconciliation?

Mr. KINGSTON. If the gentleman would yield, then we will go through for a wrap-up, but we are running out of time. Mr. GRAHAM, why do you not say something on Medisave accounts?

Mr. KINGSTON. There are some of those options that your parents and mine will be able to get under MedicarePlus.

Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, let us quickly go over Medicare. I think that the hour is getting late and the time has about run out. Maybe starting with Mr. Chrysler, trustees, April 3, 1995, three of them are Clinton appointees, they say Medicare is going bankrupt in 7 years. What do you do?

Mr. KINGSTON. I am amazed that the Speaker is still awake at this hour. I guess I did something wrong. I yield to the gentleman.

Mr. KINGSTON

Mr. KINGSTON. Let me modify that. I know that the gentleman is saying. The majority is the party in here who agrees with the American people. One party in here does not make the majority. One party plus the American people. And I believe that is what we had when we defeated the socialized medicine plan last year.

Mr. KINGSTON. I know Mr. Hoke and I, if you remember when we were sworn in 3 years ago, we had all these great hopes. I think we have pushed some things through. But we really did need to merge our fighting 48.

Mr. KINGSTON. That bird is an ostrich, I have come to the conclusion.

Mr. KINGSTON. I thought that was Jack Webb who said, just the facts.

Mr. KINGSTON. I think the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Hoke, and I are curious because our freshman class had some reforms. How did your freshman class, how did you decide to dismantle the Department of Commerce, how do 72 Members come together on an idea like this? Because it is certainly revolutionary.

Mr. KINGSTON. What was the bottom line savings on this dismantling of the cabinet?

Mr. KINGSTON. Generally, the children who are born to mothers who are children, not age-appropriate to be mothers, these kids go on to be dependent, to be school dropouts and drug users. That is statistically a fact and something we have to deal with. I want to recognize the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Chrysler]. I wanted to say this about him, and stop me if I am incorrect on this. Mr. Chrysler did not go to college and started immediately after high school working for an automobile customizing company. Within a number of years of hard work, he ended up buying the company from his employer, selling it, and reselling it, and going on and owning other businesses and has certainly lived the American dream. Along the way, had no help from the Department of Commerce, which is there to help businessmen like Mr. Chrysler somewhere out there, hypothetically, to become entrepreneurs. He did it somehow without their help. Now his number one goal is to abolish the Department of Commerce. He has succeeded in that. We passed that in the reconciliation bill in the House. We have got some problems in the Senate, but Mr. Chrysler, we are delighted to have you here and delighted to have people like you in Congress. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Chrysler].

Mr. KINGSTON. The illegitimacy among whites is going up faster than the blacks' illegitimacy rate.

Mr. KINGSTON. Let us hear from the gentleman from Ohio. I also wanted to recognize the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Chrysler] next. He has an interesting tale. We want to talk about another thing in this reconciliation, which is the abolishment of the Department of Commerce. I wanted to let Mr. Hoke talk about Ohio and welfare quickly.

Mr. KINGSTON. The gentleman from South Carolina actually has been on the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. The gentleman has been involved in this debate. Is it moving in the right direction? Are we helping the working man?

Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Hayworth has been a champion of the working man and that this is the working man's Congress. Does that fit into this?

Mr. KINGSTON. The gentleman touched on a point about working versus not working, and I have often heard someone say the difference between a Republican and Democrat is that a Democrat gets money from Washington and Republicans send money to Washington. We have earlier in the day been talking about welfare reform, big welfare reform legislation tied up into the reconciliation bill. You gentlemen have been involved in that. There are four basic components: No money for illegal aliens; State block grants for flexibility; discouraging teenage pregnancy; and work requirements. Let us just talk about that for a few minutes. There are some other things in her that we want to talk about. Mr. Gutknecht?

Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, the bottom line is we save taxpayer money and we get more student scholarships out there. What could be better?

Mr. KINGSTON. Does the gentleman see why we do not yield to him?

Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Hayworth, it is your turn.

Mr. KINGSTON. Now, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Graham] better get more aggressive, because if you want floor time, we do not yield readily.

Mr. KINGSTON. And we voted on the legislative branch. The U.S. Congress has taken a cut. We have reduced our staff one-third.

Mr. KINGSTON. And, Mr. Speaker, we are spending more on Pell grants that we ever have and keeping historically black colleges at a level amount. Those are not being cut. We have also level funded the TRIO program, which includes the important Talent Search Education Program and Upward Bound. So the gentleman is absolutely correct. There will be more students participating in student loan programs than ever before in history. And yet I hope they are smart enough to maybe tell some of our Democratic colleagues that that does not constitute a cut.

Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I will yield.