Sessions Delivers Opening Remarks As Senate Begins Debate On First Budget In Four Years
“If the American people take nothing else away from this debate, it should be that the party running this Senate, spending your dollars, refuses to ever balance the federal budget… [Their plan’s] surging debt and taxes will crush American workers, close American factories, and depress American wages… This budget effectively shows no concern for Americans […]
Sessions Comments On Passage Of Senate Majority’s First Budget In Four Years
“Now that the Senate majority has written a plan we can finally begin this conversation: Do we balance the budget and grow the economy for all Americans? Or do we continue to enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people?” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the […]
Senate Democrats Vote To Give Free Healthcare And Obamacare To Illegal Immigrants As Part Of Immigration Reform
“This will dramatically accelerate the insolvency of our entitlement programs and is unfair to American workers and taxpayers.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued a statement tonight following a 43–56 vote on his amendment to ensure that illegal immigrants cannot access free and taxpayer-funded health care if they […]
Broad Support for Balanced Approach that Puts Families, Seniors, and Communities First
Today, the Senate Budget Committee released the following excerpts from statements put out by some of the many organizations representing families, workers, seniors, and communities across the country that have expressed support for pro-growth Senate Budget that puts the economy first, tackles the deficit and debt responsibly, and keeps the promises made to seniors, veterans, […]
Sessions Comments After Senate Democrats Stunningly Oppose Balancing The Budget Through Any Means Whatsoever
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued a statement after Senate Democrats voted against his motion to recommit the Murray budget to committee with instructions to find a way to balance the budget in 10 years. Only Sen. Joe Manchin joined with Republicans in support of balancing the federal […]
Unmasking The $1.5T Tax Hike In Senate Democrats’ FY14 Budget
When the Budget Committee minority staff began analyzing Chairman Patty Murray’s FY 2014 budget last week, they were shocked to discover that the plan called for not $975 billion in tax increases—the amount that the majority proudly and openly claimed—but instead $1.5 trillion in tax hikes.
Sessions Replies To Vilsack On Foreign SNAP Promotions, Seeks Cost Info Ahead Of Budget Votes
“As you may know, the Senate [is scheduled to] vote on the budget resolution. To assist Senators in their work on the budget, and as well as work on future government funding measures, it would be helpful to have certain additional details about the food stamp program as well as the 14 other nutrition-support programs […]
Vote Alert: Budget Committee Democrats Reject Key GOP Amendments To Grow Economy, Not Gov’t
During the mark-up of what would be the first Senate budget in four years, Republicans on the Budget Committee offered several key amendments to balance the budget, promote pro-growth tax reform, and return to the sound principles of the bipartisan 1996 welfare reform agreement. Unfortunately, the panel’s Democrat majority unanimously opposed each of these efforts.
Senate Democrats Try To Fool Nation With Budget Hoax
“Senate Democrats’ claim of $1.85 trillion in deficit reduction is based on several egregious accounting gimmicks. The biggest is that the majority amazingly fails to account for the cost of eliminating the sequester—a $1.2 trillion sleight-of-hand. In other words, they don’t replace the sequester and then offer $1.85 trillion in deficit reduction; the $1.85 trillion is the sequester replacement—wiping out most of the alleged new savings.”
Ranking Member Sessions Remarks On Conclusion Of FY14 Senate Budget Mark-Up
“This is the kind of meeting we should have been having all along—public, open process… [but] I remain deeply disappointed that the majority’s proposal not only fails to change our debt course, but actually increases spending over the next 10 years—including $162 billion of increased spending next year alone… What is particularly troubling is that […]