Sessions: Sebelius Has Never Testified Before Budget Committee Despite Health Spending Comprising Nearly 1/3 Of Fed. Budget
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released a letter today sent to Chairman Patty Murray asking that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius be invited to appear before the Committee. The text of Sessions’ letter follows: “Dear Chairman Murray: At the end of our hearing with the Director […]
Chairman Patty Murray’s Statement on President Obama’s Budget Proposal
“The President’s budget proposal is a strong blueprint for building on our bipartisan budget deal to create jobs, expand opportunities, and tackle our deficits and debt fairly and responsibly. “The two-year bipartisan budget deal signed into law in December was a strong step in the right direction, but it shouldn’t be the last step we […]
BUDGET HEARING: The President’s FY15 Budget Proposal
Washington, D.C—Today, Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) and the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal with Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell. At the hearing, Murray addressed proposals in the President’s budget, discussed the importance of the two-year budget agreement Congress approved in December, and called […]
Chairman Murray’s Statement on Building on the Two-Year Budget Deal
“I went into my negotiations with Chairman Ryan hoping we could give the American people some much needed certainty after years of lurching to crisis to crisis, and I was very glad that our two-year budget deal accomplished that. Fiscal Year 2015 is settled, the Appropriations Committees are already working with their bipartisan spending levels, and […]
Chairman Murray Releases Memo To The Caucus On Updated Fiscal Outlook, Opportunity To Refocus on Creating Jobs And Investing in Opportunity
(Washington, D.C.) – Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) released a memo to Senate Democrats that outlines the $3.3 trillion in deficit reduction put in place since August 2010. The memo describes the improved near-term fiscal outlook, and makes the case for focusing more on job creation, expanding opportunity and generating broad-based economic growth […]
Sessions: Households Have Lost $278B In Income Over The Last Five Years
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today after a new Bureau of Labor Statistics report revealed that February marked the 74th straight month that employment levels have been below what they were at the start of the recession: “Since 2007, the population has grown by […]
Sessions Delivers Opening Remarks At Hearing With President’s Budget Director
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following remarks today at the Budget Committee hearing on the President’s FY 2015 budget proposal with testimony from OMB Director Sylvia Burwell: “Director Burwell, thank you for joining us here today. Two weeks ago, where you are sitting today, we heard […]
Sessions: President’s Budget ‘An Open Declaration That Reality Doesn’t Matter’
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget submission: “Just days ago the Director of the Congressional Budget Office sounded the alarm over our nation’s ‘unsustainable’ debt path and ‘the risk of a fiscal crisis.’ But President Obama has […]
The President’s FY 2015 Budget: Growing The Government And Shrinking The Middle Class
Spending Surges, Debt Explodes, Interest Skyrockets, and Taxes Hiked (Again) To Pay for New Spending
Sessions Reacts To Senate Dem Decision To Skip Budget Once Again
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the Friday afternoon announcement that the Senate’s Democrat majority would, for yet another year, violate its legal obligation to produce a budget plan: “With this decision every single Senate Democrat has fled the fiscal battlefield at a […]