Sessions Delivers Opening Remarks At Bernanke Hearing
“I am glad Chairman Conrad will be marking-up a budget in committee. But the mark-up will be a doomed exercise if your own majority leader decrees that the budget process will be shut down. Majority Leader Reid has effectively declared both a Senate Democrat budget – and the President’s budget – dead on arrival.”
Sessions Responds To Reid’s Breaking Announcement On Democrat Budget Plan
“By refusing to lay out a budget plan for public examination—a fact no one can deny—the Democrat Senate has forfeited the high privilege to lead this chamber.”
Sessions, Snowe Explain Need For Honest Budget Act: ‘Washington Uses A Different Set Of Rules’
“Americans have a right to expect honesty, transparency, and accountability from their elected officials. They have a right to know that a cut is a cut, an increase is an increase, and that a price tag is accurate.”
Sessions On Baseline: Spending To Increase Fifty-Three Percent, Debt By $11.4 Trillion
“On February 13th the president will face a crucial test, one that will define the character of his presidency: will he finally submit a budget that brings our stratospheric spending back down to earth? Or will he continue to grow the government and bring America tragically closer to ‘the most predictable economic crisis in its history.’?”
Sessions On President’s Debt Increase: Policies Growing Gov’t, Shrinking Middle Class
“After last year’s budget deal, our nation will accumulate $10.3 trillion in new debt over the next ten years. With real wages declining and fewer total Americans working today than a decade ago, the truth is plain: President Obama’s policies are growing the government and shrinking the middle class.”
Sessions Delivers Opening Statement At First Budget Hearing Of 2012
“The president says he wants an ‘America built to last.’ But we can’t do that with borrowed money. Debt is not an asset, spending is not a virtue, and borrowing is not a future.”
Sessions Responds To State Of The Union Address
“President Obama has again crowned himself the champion of the middle class, but from his perch in Washington he cannot see that by growing the government he is actually shrinking the middle class… When power centralizes in Washington, those with the most access—like Warren Buffett—stand to make the most profit.”
Sessions And Ryan Ahead Of Day 1,000: Senate Democrats ‘Abandoned Their Duty’
“Senate Democrats abandoned their official duty to prioritize Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars and tackle our nation’s most pressing economic challenges—dealing a painful blow to fiscal progress that may be felt for some time.”
Sessions Comments On President’s Rejection Of Keystone Pipeline
“President Obama is apparently interested in pursuing jobs only through government spending and not through private sector growth.”
Sessions Raises Questions Regarding White House Staff Changes
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the following statement today about the selection of current OMB Director Jack Lew to be the new White House chief of staff, and the resulting vacancy at the Office of Management and Budget: “I wish Jack Lew the best fortune in his […]