Sessions Investigates Grant Process, Questionable Use Of Funds At National Humanities Endowment
“A review of your most recent education program grants reveals that funds have been provided to study, among other things… ‘What is the meaning of life?’ [and] ‘Why are bad people bad?’ … In the current fiscal environment, I question the appropriateness of such grants, and believe the public would benefit from a fulsome explanation of the entire [grant] review process…
Recent press reports [also] indicate that NEH has launched a project to distribute books related to Islam to over 900 libraries across the United States… Using taxpayer dollars to fund education program grant questions that are very indefinite or in an effort to seemingly use Federal funds on behalf of just one religion, does not on its face appear to be the appropriate means to establish confidence in the American people that NEH expenditures are wise.”
Sessions Comments On September Jobs Report
“Those who are working are experiencing a decline in wages and incomes stretching back to the late 1990s. Getting these Americans back into the workforce, and getting cash wages to rise and replace government benefits, has to be at the center of all economic discussions.”
Sessions Delivers 2nd Address In Series On American Workers, Calls On Both Parties To Reject Special Interests
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following speech today as the second in a series of addresses analyzing the state of the American economy: “Last Thursday I delivered the first in a series of speeches looking at the state of our economy. I have directed my […]
Ranking Member Sessions Responds To Secretary Sebelius’ False Claim On Part-Time Work
“This is a stunningly misleading declaration from a person who now holds immense power over millions of Americans and their financial futures.”
Sessions Issues Statement On Yellen Nomination To Chair Federal Reserve
“Our nation’s long-term plan surely cannot be to supplement declining wages through ever more government subsidy and borrowing. The nation must begin a steady and firm move toward a sound money policy that creates confidence and stability in our struggling economy.”
Sessions Issues Statement After Voting Against Debt Hike, Spending Bill
“With falling wages, $1 trillion in welfare spending, and a massive health law that no one can afford, now is the time to pursue a national reform agenda that serves working Americans. Struggling workers deserve a sound financial future—one with better wages, better incomes, and a better plan than borrowing money to mail more government checks.”
Sessions Catalogs Destructive Impacts Of Obamacare
“The President’s health care law will worsen, not improve, our fiscal outlook. It’s hurting our economy, it’s harming millions of Americans, and it’s growing the size and scope of government. Congress must permanently repeal this unworkable law.”
Sessions Opening Statement: Washington’s Policies Limiting Economic Growth And Opportunity
“We are quietly downsizing the American Dream. The ‘new normal’ really refers to the increasingly modest dreams hardworking families allow themselves. Maybe education after high school, maybe retirement, maybe a paid-up home and car when you stop working… but [these things are] increasingly not certain and perhaps not even likely…”
Sessions Gives First In Series Of Addresses On U.S. Economy: Deteriorating Conditions For Working Households
“It is time that we recognized both the disastrous conditions facing working Americans and the moral obligation we have to replace government dependency with the freedom and dignity that comes from work and independence.”
Sessions Comments On New CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook
“The report demolishes any argument that the decline in the size of our deficits provides any basis for the country to relax.”