[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 25447]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               WHY CONGRESS IS IN SESSION ON SUNDAY NIGHT

  (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, we are here on a Sunday night. I want to 
tell my colleagues, I am kind of sad. I would rather be with my family. 
But I will tell you one thing, it is my duty to be here and fight for 
the things that I believe in.
  One of the things that I am fighting for is little old Brantley 
County, Georgia. Because, see, the President has a scheme to federalize 
school construction. He wants to have school construction run out of 
Washington, D.C., for every county school board in the United States of 
America. We want local control.
  I want to tell the folks back in Brantley County, Georgia, that you 
are going to continue to be in charge. We are here to fight for 
classroom size. I am with the President on that. We need to reduce the 
size of the classroom. But I am away from the President on Medicare 
reimbursement. He has threatened to veto a bill that has been endorsed 
by the American Hospital Association. I am here because the President 
has threatened to veto a bill that would take away 100 percent health 
care deductibility, which would make health care affordable for small 
businesses and farmers. That is worth fighting for. And I am here for 
the Social Security lockbox, which the President has yet to commit 
himself to.
  That is why we are here on a Sunday night, and I am not going to 
leave until we get this thing done.

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