Sessions Comments On Voting To Avoid Fiscal Cliff, Prevent Tax Increases
“This legislation is necessary to prevent a large and painful tax increase from falling on the vast majority of Americans… Now, it is important that we place our focus directly on the real cause of our nation’s looming debt crisis: the continued surge in spending.”
Sessions Comments On Status Of Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
“The biggest obstacle we face is that President Obama and Majority Leader Reid continue to insist on new taxes that will be used to fund more new spending, not for meaningful deficit reduction.”
Sessions Discusses USDA’s Effort To Expand Food Stamp Enrollment Regardless Of Financial Need
“In some of our first inquiries in examination of their program, we find that they are on a determined effort to expand the number of people who get on welfare—on food stamps—even if they don’t want to be on food stamps… Is this the right approach for America? … Can’t we look back to the […]
Sessions Comments On New CBO Deficit Report
“President Obama talks a lot about a ‘balanced plan’ for deficit reduction, but there is one simple question the White House won’t answer: how do you plan to balance the budget?”
Sessions, Thune Raise Concern Over Abuse Of SNAP Benefits By Paid Government Volunteers
WASHINGTON—Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and John Thune (R-SD), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today sent a letter to Wendy Spencer, Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a government entity responsible for matching volunteers with local community service organizations. The letter outlines […]
Sessions: President’s Secret Cliff ‘Plan’ Has Over $1T In New Spending; Fed Debt Would Rise $9T Overall
“There is a reason why the White House strongly prefers to operate in secrecy… If the White House believes our analysts are mistaken, the Budget Committee is standing by to review any concrete financial plan the President wishes to produce.”
Sessions: There Is No Obama-Geithner Plan
“Until this fantasy ‘plan’ from a secret meeting is made public and scored by the Congressional Budget Office it does not exist… It is a distraction that allows the White House to continue to run out the clock so it can have maximal leverage to force through a bad deal in the last minutes before midnight.”
Sessions Delivers Remarks On Folly Of Secret Fiscal Negotiations
“Shouldn’t the President of the United States, the only person who represents everybody in the country, lay out his plan, or must that remain a secret too? Will it just be revealed to us on the eve of Christmas or eve of the new calendar year? We will be asked to vote for it, to ratify it like lemmings, I suppose.”
Sessions Comments On Senate Sustaining Point Of Order On Tester Bill
“At a time when Washington is spending $9,700 million every day, certainly we can find areas of waste and duplication to offset the $14 million yearly cost of this legislation. That simple fix should ensure swift passage.”
Sessions Corrects Reid, Durbin: Treasury Borrows Money To Repay Social Security So It Can Pay Recipients
“While Social Security trustees can correctly say that the money they loaned to the Treasury is theirs to draw upon, the Treasury—already in debt and without reserves—cannot deny that it is right now borrowing money from the United States and the world to pay that obligation.”