[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4490-4491]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO SPEND TAXPAYER MONEY WISELY

  (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, last year when the House proposed to 
Federal agencies that they cut out 1 cent of every dollar they spend, 
the Clinton administration screamed bloody murder. Cut out 1 cent from 
the Federal Government for every dollar we spend? There is no way. We 
are too efficient, too effective.
  The Secretary of Interior said there is absolutely no waste in my 
department and yet went on to waste money after money.
  Let me give my colleagues an example. The Social Security 
Administration sent out $3.3 billion in checks to people who were 
ineligible for it. Well, they might look there.

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  How about the rocket launchers? Al Gore is a big gun control 
advocate, but when one of the $1 million rocket launcher disappeared, 
there was no word from the administration. Now, that is scary enough, 
but then another one disappeared. Think about that. There are two 
rocket launchers at large somewhere in our society. Yet, the folks in 
the Gore-Clinton administration are telling us there is no waste in 
government.
  Mr. Speaker, we have got to do a better job. We are not spending our 
money. Contrary to the government dogma that it is government money, it 
is not. It is taxpayer money. It is what people back home work real 
hard to send to us. We need to be fiduciaries of it. We need to spend 
it carefully.

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