Sessions Asks Administration To Make Good On New Promise Of Food Stamp Oversight
“I would ask that the Committee be immediately provided with a thorough explanation of all [food stamp] oversight actions your Department is taking, as well as a list of recommended federal reforms…”
Sessions To Oppose 11th Hour ‘Omnibus’; Cites Billions In Gimmicks
“House Republicans have worked vigilantly all year to change our debt course, and produced a budget to do exactly that. The great shame is that they never had willing partners in President Obama and his Democrat-led Senate.”
Sessions: Keystone Underscores How President Is Harming Middle Class
“There’s a lot of things that we can do that will not cost this Treasury a dime… It’s time, indeed, for a middle-class agenda… we don’t need more dishonest spending… the net beneficiary of all this seems to have been the political class, not the middle class.”
Sessions Supports Strong Balanced Budget Amendment
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today in support of S.J. Res. 10, the Republican balanced budget proposal, and expressing concern over provisions in the Democrat counter-measure (S.J. Res. 24): “Washington has both a moral and economic responsibility to balance the budget. Morally, we have […]
Sessions On Fox: President’s Policies Threaten The Middle Class
“He needs to tell the American people the truth, [that] the greatest threat to the middle class and all of us is the debt over our country… he has a host of things he could do to help the middle class, which is being hammered and is being damaged today, that would not add to the debt, that would help America grow and prosper.”
Sessions Comments On Social Security Votes, Encourages President To Return To Governing
“With no long-term economic plan of any kind, the president has abandoned governing in favor of campaigning. His only ideas are short-term measures and temporary stimulus checks that make the debt worse… no one can disagree that this country, and our beleaguered middle class, would be better off if the president would lay out a […]
Responding To President’s Kansas Address, Sessions Asks: Where Will His Policies Leave Us?
“The president talks about fairness. Yet one of the results of his administration has been to widen the inequity between the middle class and the political class… The middle class must pay for the president’s failed policies twice—first, they have to pay the bill for profligate federal spending, and then they must pay the price […]
Sessions Challenges War Savings Gimmick
“Using the war gimmick would mean increasing the total amount being spent over ten years but still calling it a savings. It’s exactly this kind of bogus accounting that has caused Americans to lose faith in Washington.”
The Case For Growth: Sessions Lists Benefits Of Discretionary Cuts
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered an opening statement today at a hearing with former Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici and former OMB and CBO Director Alice Rivlin to discuss the report from their bipartisan debt reduction task force. Sessions argued that immediate reductions in discretionary spending will […]
Sessions Expresses Concern Over Obama Nominee For Key Budget Post, Lack Of Candor From White House
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the following statement ahead of tomorrow’s hearing to consider Heather Higginbottom’s nomination to be Deputy Director for the Office of Management and Budget. Over the past 20 years, other appointees for this position have had an average of seven years of budget […]