[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 157 (Tuesday, November 9, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11715]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SQUEEZING A NICKEL OUT OF FIVE DOLLARS

  (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, if a schoolboy gives his favorite teacher 
an apple, she will probably take a small bite out of it, something like 
that, just modest.
  Now, if the taxpayer, his parents send the same apple in the form of 
tax dollars to the Federal Government, this is what they deem as their 
fair share, and that is the debate we are in today.
  What we are asking is that the Department of Education, just like all 
the other Federal agencies, get $5 and squeeze a nickel out of it.
  Now, I am a father of four. I have two teenagers and two who still 
love me. We have to sit around the kitchen table every night to come up 
with ways to save money. Mr. Speaker, if we can buy our gas for $1.07 a 
gallon, we go two more blocks so we do not have to pay $1.10. I do not 
buy new suits until they are on sale, and my colleagues might be 
thinking, well, I hope there is a sale coming up soon.
  I do not get a steak when I go out to eat; I get chicken, and we do 
not buy Special K unless we get the 35 cents off coupon.
  All we are asking of the Department of Education and all of the 
Federal bureaucracies in Washington is to find that little old nickel 
out of the $5 so that we can save Social Security.

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