[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 41 (Wednesday, April 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1346]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    BIG GOVERNMENT IS NOT THE ANSWER

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I am really disturbed about these 
Democrats. Apparently they are taking their paychecks and they are not 
working. What is it with my colleagues? My friends on the other side of 
the aisle all should be out having town meetings, visiting with 
constituents, visiting plants, talking to people, doing casework. If my 
colleagues are ashamed of the fact that they are not working, do not 
blame it on Newt Gingrich, go home and resign.
  There is lots to be done. I realize that there is frustration that we 
are not up here passing more laws, more power, more for bureaucracy, 
more control over small businesses. I know what it is my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle consider great fun, and that is growing the 
size of government. Mr. Speaker, the folks back home think it is a good 
day's work when government does not get bigger and bigger every single 
day, every single year.
  Mr. Speaker, the IRS, just take them alone. The IRS right now is up 
to 111,000 employees. Americans spend over $1.8 billion man-hours a 
year just filling out their IRS income tax forms. Businesses spend $3.6 
billion complying with their paperwork. That is too much government, 
too much bureaucracy.
  Mr. Speaker, passing more laws and increasing the size of government 
is not the key to utopia, much to the disappointment of some of our 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle.

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