Sessions Investigates Disability Benefits Being Awarded On Basis Of Inability To Speak English
“There appear to be serious concerns about how a claimant’s ability to speak English is determined and whether it can be adequately determined at all… [and] I am inclined to agree with former Social Security Administrative Law Judge Drew A. Swank, who concludes that the inability to communicate in English should not qualify under the general disability definition.”
Ranking Member Sessions On Nomination of President’s Budget Director To Head HHS, Implement Health Law
“Ms. Burwell has a comparatively thin resume for the demands now placed on this position—she has never run anything on the scale of HHS—and, during her short stint as budget director, she did more to obscure the nation’s poor financial state than to illuminate it.”
Sessions Questions National Endowment For The Humanities Over Dubious Expenditures
“Now is not the time for us to come up with creative ways to spend money. Now is the time for us to come up with creative ways to save money. NEH is obligated to do its part. Eliminating some of these programs might be necessary.”
Sessions: Americans Are Right To Believe Washington Has Stacked The Deck Against Them
“Washington and Wall Street are booming. The greatest growth area in the United States is Washington, DC… Lobbyists, consultants, and politicians are doing quite well. But median household incomes have declined by $2,268 since 2009…”
Sessions Writes To Small Business Administration About Cost Of Loan Program
“Encouraging lending to small businesses is one of the primary purposes of the Small Business Administration (SBA). SBA’s main program to achieve that goal is the flagship 7(a) loan guarantee program. There are a number of questions about the success of the SBA in this endeavor.”
Sessions Delivers Opening Statement At Hearing On Economic Challenges Facing Working Americans
“We were told that the massive debts accumulated over the last five years would lead to prosperity. But we now are left with none of the prosperity and all of the debt… CBO says [interest payments on that debt] will rise in 2024 to $880 billion. That single year’s interest payment is 300 times what we spend today on our national parks. It’s 20 times what we spend today on our highways. It’s enough to fund our federal education programs for more than a decade…
If we care about economic growth, if we care about prosperity, then we must recognize that these rising interest payments threaten to drown our economy.”
Sessions Delivers Opening Remarks At Hearing Examining President’s Budget With Secretary Lew
“In 2009, the Administration wagered America’s financial future on the idea that a record increase in government spending and debt would revive the economy… The justification for this unprecedented accumulation of debt was the claim that it would lead to prosperity. And yet now, we have none of the prosperity and all of the debt. This plan has proven to be one of the most costly failed gambits in American history.”
Sessions: Sebelius Has Never Testified Before Budget Committee Despite Health Spending Comprising Nearly 1/3 Of Fed. Budget
“Secretary Sebelius has never once testified before the Budget Committee on either the President’s budget or the President’s health care law… [yet] health care costs… comprise nearly 30 percent of all federal spending [and] are growing more rapidly than other areas of the budget, especially over the long-term.”
Sessions: Households Have Lost $278B In Income Over The Last Five Years
“The President’s plan to spend and borrow and add debt in order to revive the economy has proved to be one of the most costly failed gambits our nation has seen. Government debt has increased 64 percent since 2009, from $10.6 trillion to $17.4 trillion. Yet, median household income has decreased 4.5 percent over that same time—that’s $2,268 per household, or $270 billion in total lost income.”
Sessions Delivers Opening Remarks At Hearing With President’s Budget Director
“This administration appears determined to shield the bureaucracy from accountability as it drains the nation of its wealth.”