Sessions Asks USDA To Furnish Docs, Info On SNAP Recruitment Campaign With Mexico
“My Budget Committee staff recently asked USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service to furnish materials relating to this partnership and the expenditure of taxpayer dollars, such as SNAP literature that is being distributed through Mexican consular offices. Despite these requests, that material has not been provided…
It is a sound principle of immigration policy that those who come to America be able to take care of themselves financially. This ‘partnership’ and related consulate activity appears to assume that principle is no longer in effect.”
Thune, Sessions Praise Bipartisan House Passage Of Sequestration Transparency Act
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-SD), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, today praised the House of Representatives’ passage of the Sequestration Transparency Act (H.R.5872) in a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote of 414 to 2. The Sequestration Transparency Act would require the Obama […]
Sessions To Push Vote On Majority’s Stealth $14 Billion Increase In FY13 Spending Limits
“Chairman Conrad, to his credit, does not dispute… [that] the outlay total he filed is $14 billion higher… He simply asserts that it is within his discretion to unilaterally set a higher total… Remember, outlays are the spending figure which directly registers on the debt. $14 billion in higher outlays in 2013 means $14 billion more added to the debt in 2013. It’s just that simple…
This is a matter that ought to be considered by the full Senate and so I plan to pursue a vote on the inflated spending levels. Each Senator will therefore have to examine their own conscience and their duty to their constituents and the nation. Plainly, this action violates the spirit and the terms of the BCA, which was agreed to just last August—just 11 months ago… The test will be, in this first year since the passage of the debt deal, will we adhere to its modest restraints? Or will we blink?”
CBO Issues Sessions-Requested Report On Dramatic Surge In Americans Receiving Disability Insurance
“It is clear there is a great need to distinguish between proper and improper disability claims, and to better incentivize and find acceptable work for those who are able… The administration of this program must be improved to avoid sinking our country deeper into debt, to ensure the program remains viable for those with disabilities, and to protect Social Security itself.”
Sessions Reproaches Admin For Withholding Legally Mandated Budget Update
“This makes a more significant statement than the President’s recent speeches and interviews professing his vigilant stewardship of the nation. Combined with $5 trillion in debt accrued since 2009, and the refusal of his Senate Majority to produce a budget for three years in the midst of crisis, it reveals a troubling detachment from the financial future of our Republic.”
Sessions, Grassley Heighten Criticism Of Ninth Circuit’s Lavish Retreat
“While there can be value in judicial conferences, that value is substantially eroded when judges and employees are distracted with extracurricular activities unrelated to the matters of the court. There is no indication that attendees are required to attend even one official event while on the Island… In our initial letter, we requested specific documents pertaining to the total cost of the Conference but were given vague excuses instead… Perhaps not tracking spending is the reason you believe this and previous conferences have been managed in the ‘most efficient and least costly manner.’ …
During this time of extraordinary debt, and given the history of opulence—including repeated trips to the Hawaiian Islands—we believe you should cancel the million-dollar conference.”
As USDA Nixes Controversial Food Stamp Ads, Sessions Demands Top-Down Review Of Program’s Administration
“The evidence is mounting that USDA [is] pushing, even intimidating, people who do not wish to receive assistance, including non-citizen immigrants, into enrolling for benefits they claim they do not need or wish to receive.”
Sessions: President Set To Ignore Law By Not Providing Congress With Budget Update
“Given the historic depth of [the nation’s] financial challenges, the Administration must submit their budget update on time and in the manner the law requires. Failure to do so would only further damage the President’s credibility on the great challenge confronting our nation.”
Sessions Calls USDA’s Food Stamp Tactics Into Question
“Read as a whole, USDA’s activities suggest that the program administrators take personal offense when people who technically qualify for their largesse decline to accept—and see it as an obstacle to overcome.”
Sessions: Health Law ‘Financially Devastating To Our Republic’; Must Be Repealed
“The health care law is utterly unaffordable—[adding] $17 trillion in unfunded long-term obligations… It is unthinkable our nation would add this new, colossal debt burden at a time when we are already borrowing forty cents out of every dollar we spend. This 2,700-page health law… will be financially devastating to our Republic… If it is […]