SBC Analysis: The Fiscal Impact Of The President’s Health Spending Law
Health Law Spends $2.6 Trillion—Not $900 Billion—Over Honest Ten-Year Window
Sessions: A Senate Republican Majority Would Pass A Budget
“[The House] presented an honest plan to control wasteful Washington spending, restore Medicare to safety, and grow the middle class—not the government… The Senate’s Democrat majority [is going] three straight years without offering a budget… In so doing, Senate Democrats forfeited their claim on leadership. Should voters give Republicans the privilege of a majority in […]
Sessions’ Remarks At House Press Conference Unveiling Their FY13 Budget Plan
“House Republicans… have courageously, intelligently, and responsibly laid out a new plan for America’s future… [Senate Democrats] have refused to offer a budget for now three straight years now… The Senate’s Democratic majority has forfeited their claim to leadership for America. If the voters give Republicans in the Senate the honor of having the majority […]
Senate Democrats Set Spending Levels For 2013 and Budget Enforcement Through 2022
WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Democrats today set discretionary spending limits for fiscal year 2013 and budget enforcement levels for the Senate through 2022. The “deeming” resolution filed today by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) adheres to the reduced discretionary spending levels established in last summer’s Budget Control Act. His action allows Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman […]
CBO Analysis Reveals President’s Budget Leaves Dangerous Debt Path Unchanged
“Although the president’s plan contains a $1.8 trillion tax hike, the vast share of that sum is used to pay for a sharp increase in new government above current growth levels. CBO also projects, in 2013, a record fifth straight deficit of a trillion dollars.”
Sessions Calls Out Schumer, Dem Leaders For Brazen Political Ploys
“Washington Democrats must think themselves very clever… they have shamelessly shifted the conversation from… very real dangers to the phantom controversies that exist only in their imagination. They are desperate to distract from a record that they cannot defend.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement […]
Sessions Comments On CBO Revelation Of Growing Price Tag For President’s Health Law
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued a statement today following yesterday’s updated baseline from the Congressional Budget Office, which revealed that projections of the gross costs associated with President Obama’s health law had increased, as did the number of people who would be dropped from their employer-sponsored coverage: […]
As Deadline Nears, Budget Republicans Urge Prompt Scheduling Of Mark-up
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, was joined by every Committee Republican today in releasing a letter to Chairman Kent Conrad. Text of the letter follows: Dear Chairman Conrad: We appreciate your stated commitment to mark up a fiscal year 2013 budget resolution in the Budget Committee. We hope […]
Ahead Of Budget Mark-Up, Sessions And Johnson Call For Hearing With Sebelius Over New Health Law Revelations
“The Senate Committee on the Budget is required to report a budget resolution for fiscal year 2013 by April 1, 2012… it is critical that we have a comprehensive understanding of how the president’s health care law will impact this nation’s unsustainable debt course… Secretary Sebelius was [recently] unable to explain either the cause of […]
Sessions Responds To President’s News Conference: POTUS ‘Oddly Disconnected’ From Suffering Economy, Finances
“Stunningly, in his first press conference of the year, President Obama did not have a word to say about America’s extraordinary debt threat, which puts our economy, our security, and our nation at risk… He talks about our economic health, but somehow ignores the fact that he submitted a budget plan only days ago that […]