Sessions, Ryan Call For Halt On Taxpayer Funding For Risky High-Speed Rail Project
“We are deeply troubled by the prospects of subsidizing another costly, wasteful, and risky high-speed rail project, particularly when our nation is facing a debt crisis that threatens the well-being of the current and future generations of Americans… We would urge the Administration to reject the XpressWest loan application and to direct its available RRIF funds to more worthy transportation infrastructure projects that could truly provide a reasonable rate of return to the taxpayers of this nation.”
Sessions Comments On Nomination Of New OMB Director
“The Director must lead an effort to make government leaner and more efficient, and must be committed to providing honest and accurate information on the dangerous financial condition of our country.”
Sessions: Data In New State Dept. Letter Further Proves Immigrant Welfare Prohibition Being Ignored
“A central economic principle of American immigration is that those seeking entry into the United States must be able to care for themselves financially. This is logical and necessary and common to virtually all nations… But the data provided leaves no doubt: this principle is no longer being applied—despite a firm and unambiguous legal requirement.”
Sessions: Fed Workers Should Have Opportunity To Find Budget Savings
“[Federal] workers know firsthand how much waste and inefficiency exists in the government. Our Budget Committee office will look for a way to solicit federal employees to send suggestions for how to save money in their departments, agencies, and divisions. What is better? To furlough someone or to empower them to make their office more efficient?”
Sessions Delivers Opening Remarks At Budget Committee Hearing On Government Spending
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered remarks today at a Budget Committee hearing scheduled by the majority to make the case for additional federal “investments.” Sessions’ remarks, as prepared, follow: “Thank you, Chairman Murray. This hearing deals with an important subject: Government spending and long term economic growth. […]
Sessions Delivers Closing Remarks On Lew Nomination
“As I close my remarks, I would appeal to my colleagues to oppose Mr. Lew. I would appeal to my colleagues to defend the integrity of the Senate, to defend the right of our constituents to hear the truth from government officials, and to defend the idea, the very concept, of truth itself.”
Sessions Opens Debate On Opposition To Jack Lew Nomination
“Normally, and necessarily, the OMB director is the single office that drives efficiency and demands accountability on behalf of the President and the American people. In that aspect of his job, and in this time of surging debt, I rate Mr. Lew’s performance as an F…
[It] was decided [that] Mr. Lew would go before the American people and Congress and just declare that the budget did put the nation on a sound financial course… To anybody that has the slightest concern for the meaning of words, or who believes in the most basic concept of objective truth, this statement must be condemned.”
Sessions: DHS Letter Confirms Public Charge Immigration Law Not Being Enforced
“We turn down countless people seeking to immigrate who have every prospect of being successful and self-sufficient while admitting large numbers who are statistically likely to become dependent on federal assistance.”
At Budget Hearing, Sessions Presents Moral Case For Welfare Reform
“It is time to return to the moral principles of the 1996 welfare reform. That reform was guided by the principle that, over time, unmonitored welfare programs were damaging not merely to the Treasury but to the recipient… No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.”
Sessions Delivers Opening Statement At First Budget Hearing Of 2013
“It has been four years since the Democrat-led Senate has produced a budget as the law requires… I am glad that the Senate majority has relented and is going to do a budget this year, else I wonder what our Committee might find itself having to do—whether we would even need the Committee. So we look forward to meeting the Committee deadline of April 1st to publically produce a resolution and then April 15th on the Senate floor…
While we talk of cuts and frugality, total spending is expected to grow by 67 percent over the next 10 years. Primarily alarming is a finding in an additional CBO report prepared at my request: spending on just the 10 largest welfare and poverty programs—programs like food stamps—will increase even more, by 76 percent over ten years… Compassion demands changes. Our goal must be to help more Americans find gainful employment and the opportunity to financially support themselves and their families and to prosper.”