Stunning Discovery: Senate Majority Fixed Discretionary Outlays For FY13 At Obama Budget Level, $14 Billion Above Debt-Deal Agreement
“It is unthinkable that we would not only spend more than Congress agreed to, but would institute instead the numbers derived from President Obama’s budget which this chamber unanimously rejected.”
Sessions, Grassley: Lavish 9th Circuit Judicial Conference In Maui Could Cost Taxpayers More Than $1 Million
“Americans struggling to pay their bills are tired of watching the government throw lavish events on the taxpayer dime. They are tired of watching entire sectors of government behave in a fashion totally disconnected from the reality of our perilous financial state.”
Sessions: Senate Majority Backs Reid, Supports Leader’s View That Having A Budget Is ‘Foolish’
“It is a vote of their entire caucus to keep this nation on our unsustainable debt course.”
Sessions: By Refusing To Offer Budget Plan, Senate Majority Endorses Nation’s Current Dangerous Financial Direction
“The party running the Senate has neither written nor offered a budget plan for our nation’s financial future… The budget votes expected this week will once again bring into crystal focus that the party running the Senate is refusing to meet its financial obligations… Through its continued unwillingness to advance a sound plan for the future, the Senate majority is endorsing the unsustainable course we are on now.”
Sessions: Exactly Three Years Since Senate Majority Last Adopted A Budget
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today about April 29th, the three-year anniversary of the last time the Democrat-led Senate passed a budget resolution: “This Sunday marks exactly three years since the last time the Senate’s Democrat majority adopted a budget. For three years, in the […]
Sessions Comments On Senate Waiving Budget Rules To Increase Debt
“A vote to waive the point of order was a vote to waive the debt deal agreement… yet every Democrat Senator voted to break the budget. Today’s vote is more evidence that their Senate majority—which, as of this Sunday, will have refused to pass a budget since exactly three years ago—is determined to avoid any semblance of financial accountability.”
Sessions To Raise Point Of Order Against Postal Bill For Spending Billions More Than Debt Limit Agreement Allowed
“The White House warns that Republicans want to cut too much spending. But the American people know the truth. And the truth is that we have never spent more money, more recklessly and with less accountability, than we are spending today.”
Sessions Says President Must Impose Disciplined Management On Dysfunctional Government
“Right now, the President needs a Solyndra rule, not a Buffett Rule: instead of focusing on extracting more money from the American people, he must focus on ending the abuse of taxpayer dollars and restoring faith in the operation of the federal government.”
Sessions Issues Opening Statement At Budget Committee ‘Mark-Up’
“The effective cancellation of this mark-up puts in crystal focus that the Senate’s Democrat leadership is determined to go to November without ever bringing a budget to the floor… If Republicans are honored with a Senate majority next year, we will conduct a real mark-up and we will pass an honest budget.”
Sessions Responds To Last-Minute Cancellation Of Planned Senate Budget Mark-Up And Votes
“Chairman Conrad’s stunning announcement, forced on him by his party, is a defining moment in 2012 and a national embarrassment for a Senate majority that is unable to meet the great challenge of our time.”