Jack Kingston Quotes
Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
Kingston, Jack. "Republican Majority." Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, 2003.
The Liberals had not won enough seats to form a majority government, and in the Parliamentary system, they had to form an alliance with a smaller party and govern with a minority.
The first Jew to run for the Vice Presidency on a major party ticket.
Actually, it was the Tea Party members of the Republican Party whose unprecedented willingness to risk the full faith and credit of the United States when the majority of the Republican legislators and almost all the Democrats were not, who held the required Debt Ceiling Increase hostage to getting their legislative way. But in this particular debate and legislation the Democrats gained nothing except that the anger of the American People was much greater against the Republicans than the Democrats, many of whose usual supporters thought that the Democrats had been totally intimidated by the Tea Party.
In 2006 the Republican Party controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency. A national debate began over illegal immigration and the Republican party was split over what to do about the 11 million illegal immigrants living and working among us and their roughly 3 million American-born children who were citizens of the United States. The Republican House and the Republican Senate were at loggerheads over two different approaches to the problem and nothing was getting done.
John Heddens Kingston is the former U.S. representative for Georgia's 1st congressional district in southeast Georgia, serving from 1993 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party and was part of the House leadership (2002–06) when he served as vice-chair of the Republican Conference. In 2014, he ran for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by retiring senator Saxby Chambliss and advanced beyond the May 20 primary to the July 22 runoff, where he was defeated by David Perdue.
