Sessions: President’s Budget ‘Not Merely Reckless; It Is Unthinkable’
“This proposal goes to extraordinary lengths to shield the federal bureaucracy from any reform, even as millions of Americans are trapped in failed government programs. It grows the government at the expense of the economy. It enriches the bureaucracy at the expense of the people. And it threatens to permanently depress the American economy under a never-ending avalanche of debt.”
Sessions Delivers Opening Remarks As Senate Begins Debate On First Budget In Four Years
“If the American people take nothing else away from this debate, it should be that the party running this Senate, spending your dollars, refuses to ever balance the federal budget.”
Sessions Comments On Passage Of Senate Majority’s First Budget In Four Years
“Now that the Senate majority has written a plan we can finally begin this conversation: Do we balance the budget and grow the economy for all Americans? Or do we continue to enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people?”
Senate Democrats Vote To Give Free Healthcare And Obamacare To Illegal Immigrants As Part Of Immigration Reform
“The core legal and economic principle of immigration is that those seeking admission to a new country must be self-sufficient and contribute to the economic health of the nation… Yet today, the Senate Democrat majority voted to extend free and subsidized health care… to illegal immigrants who would be granted legal status under any comprehensive immigration bill.”
Sessions Comments After Senate Democrats Stunningly Oppose Balancing The Budget Through Any Means Whatsoever
“This is a sad day for America… It is wrong and unjust to continue borrowing money to enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people. Tonight, the Senate majority voted to do exactly that.”
Sessions Replies To Vilsack On Foreign SNAP Promotions, Seeks Cost Info Ahead Of Budget Votes
“As you may know, the Senate [is scheduled to] vote on the budget resolution. To assist Senators in their work on the budget, and as well as work on future government funding measures, it would be helpful to have certain additional details about the food stamp program as well as the 14 other nutrition-support programs administered by USDA… According to the standards you referenced, immigrants can access 85 percent of the welfare state and still not be deemed public charges. You may also be interested to know that even this eviscerated standard is not enforced: Homeland Security astonishingly confirmed that, through August of 2012, they failed to identify a single non-citizen immigrant in the United States who was turned away as a public charge.”
Ranking Member Sessions Remarks On Conclusion Of FY14 Senate Budget Mark-Up
“This is the kind of meeting we should have been having all along—public, open process… [but] I remain deeply disappointed that the majority’s proposal not only fails to change our debt course, but actually increases spending over the next 10 years—including $162 billion of increased spending next year alone.”
After Reviewing Murray Budget, Sessions Conveys ‘Deep Disappointment’
“To my amazement and deep disappointment, the majority has come forward today with a proposal that does nothing to change our unsustainable debt course. Next year alone, their budget increases spending $162 billion above what we are spending today. That is astonishing… the majority proposal never balances—ever… The Democrat budget enriches the bureaucracy at the expense of the people.”
Sessions Delivers Opening Statement At Committee Meeting To Produce First Senate Democrat Budget In Four Years
“Is it really possible that after four years, the majority has failed to identify any reforms? That all we have is just a tax-and-spend budget that makes no alteration to our dangerous debt course? Does the majority believe the government is perfect and requires no reform? … Is the Budget Committee of the United States Senate really prepared to say we cannot balance the federal budget? If that is so, it is a sad day in America…
I fear the majority’s plan will enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people… Every time attempts are made to reform government, they meet with the same response: the President and our Chairman and Senator Reid have attacked the reformers… Struggling citizens are being hurt every day by the Washington establishment that our colleagues seem determined to shield from accountability… We need to grow the economy, not the government.”
Sessions Delivers Weekly Republican Address
“Government has never been bigger or more out of control. They say there is no problem with waste, fraud, and abuse; they say the problem is you; they say you are not sending them enough money; they say they have wisely spent every penny. So, you must just send them more. And, if you don’t? Well, they won’t stop spending, they’ll just borrow more.”