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  • FIRE UP THE PRINTING PRESSES: SPENDING ON TURBO-CHARGE
    Jun 9, 2009  - House Democrats today continued their unprecedented spending by voting to increase spending by 12% next year.  The increase comes after two years of record-breaking spending and brings the total increase since Democrats took control to nearly 50%.  When considering only non-defense spending, funding... More
  • KINGSTON VOTES AGAINST TRILLION-DOLLAR BAIT AND SWITCH
    Feb 13, 2009  - Congressman Jack Kingston (R/GA-1) today voted against the trillion dollar spending package crafted in closed-door negotiations that would do little to stimulate the economy and could, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, hurt the long-term economic growth of the United States.... More
  • KINGSTON VOTES AGAINST SPENDING PACKAGE
    Jan 28, 2009  - Congressman Jack Kingston (R/GA-1) today voted against an economic spending package crafted by House Democrats.  The bill, which would cost taxpayers an estimated $1.1 trillion, did not do enough to create jobs and bring about middle-class relief according to the Congressman. “If this kind of spend... More
  • KINGSTON NAMED TO CONSERVATIVE HONOR ROLL
    Jun 18, 2008  - The American Conservative Union (ACU) the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, has named Congressman Jack Kingston (R/GA-1) to its “Honor Roll” of members in the 110th Congress for receiving an above-average score on its 2007 ratings.    ACU has r... More
  • ABH EDITORIAL: Publication, reason key in control of earmarks
    Mar 26, 2008  - Somewhere between Congressman Paul Broun's metaphysical abhorrence of federal budget earmarks and Congressman Jack Kingston's ability to bring millions of dollars in the often under-scrutinized grants back home to Georgia lies a reasonable approach to getting that money into worthwhile projects in t... More
  • KINGSTON EARMARK REFORM PROPOSAL TO BE BROUGHT TO FLOOR FOR A VOTE
    Feb 6, 2008  - Boehner and Blunt: House GOP Will Force Vote TOMORROW on Immediate Earmark Moratorium Leaders Say GOP Will Force House to Confront Earmark Issue as Bill Containing Higher Education Slush Fund Hits Floor WASHINGTON, D.C. – Disappointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) rejection of House Repub... More
  • KINGSTON REACTS TO STATE OF THE UNION
    Jan 28, 2008  - Congressman Jack Kingston (GA-01) issued the following statement after President Bush’s State of the Union Address: “The President has highlighted several areas that deserve the attention of Congress and I hope that we can come together to accomplish many of them before the end of the year.  “Wit... More
  • KINGSTON BILL ADOPTED AS STANDARD FOR EARMARK REFORM
    Jan 25, 2008  - Congressman Jack Kingston (GA-1) praised the action of the Republican Conference on earmark reform.  The Conference voted to make reform a top priority adopting a set of guidelines and H Con Res 263 authored by Kingston and fellow appropriators Frank Wolf (VA-10) and Zach Wamp (TN-03) which calls fo... More
  • COALITION LED BY KINGSTON, WOLF AND WAMP INTRODUCES EARMARK REFORM LEGISLATION
    Nov 16, 2007  -   WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a press conference yesterday, a coalition led by Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA/01), Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN) introduced earmark reform legislation. They were joined by fellow Congressmen Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Denny Rehberg (R-MT), Jef... More