Sessions: President’s Budget ‘An Open Declaration That Reality Doesn’t Matter’
“The President’s plan rejects the very idea of limits. It is the manifesto for a big government, tax-and-spend ideology. It will further grow the government, shrink the middle class, and shield the political elite from accountability as they raid the nation’s wealth.”
Sessions Reacts To Senate Dem Decision To Skip Budget Once Again
“Today, the party running the Senate has openly declared to millions of struggling Americans… We will take no steps to prevent a future any different than the last five years: a growing government, a shrinking middle class, and a prospering Washington elite.”
Sessions Urges ‘National Effort To Reduce The Welfare Rolls And Grow The Employment Rolls’
“Imagine how much could we could do if we redirected [our $750 billion yearly welfare budget] to focus on job training, job placing, and work preparation. Wouldn’t that be a better, more productive, and more compassionate plan? One that would work?”
Ranking Member Sessions Opposes Debt Limit Increase
“This clean debt ceiling increase will grow nothing but the debt and will only make life harder for working Americans. I oppose it.”
Sessions Delivers Statement At Hearing To Examine CBO’s Obamacare Report And Budget Outlook
“It is our duty to take principled, achievable steps that will benefit the most Americans, not just the fortunate few, and do so without increasing our debt, which is already well in the danger zone.”
Sessions: Time To Begin National Conversation About Moving People Off Welfare And Into The Workforce
“President Obama’s big-government vision—one of tax, borrow, spend, regulate, and import more labor—has been proven not to work. The truth is, it will never work. Worse still, it harms the most vulnerable Americans by reducing their wages and trapping them in a cycle of dependency, as the data are showing.”
Senate Budget Committee Analysis Of CBO Baseline Outlook
“We must begin an urgent national effort to transition people from welfare to employment, replacing policies that grow our debt with policies that grow our middle class.”
Sessions Delivers Opening Statement At First Budget Hearing Of The Year
“We have tried taxing, spending, and borrowing to jump start our way to prosperity. The President proposed more of the same in his State of the Union. It has not worked, it will not work, and we need a course correction.”
Ranking Member Sessions Comments On New CBO Baseline Projections
“New baseline estimates from the Congressional Budget Office reveal, without dispute, that unsustainable deficits and debt will continue for the foreseeable future unless Congress takes decisive action.”
Ranking Member Sessions Comments On State Of The Union Address
“With a record 1 in 5 households on food stamps, and with 92 million Americans outside the work force, it is clear what we must do: a focused national effort to help transition millions of Americans off of welfare, off of unemployment, and into good-paying jobs.”