Sessions Delivers Opening Remarks At Budget Committee Hearing On Government Spending
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered remarks today at a Budget Committee hearing scheduled by the majority to make the case for additional federal “investments.” Sessions’ remarks, as prepared, follow: “Thank you, Chairman Murray. This hearing deals with an important subject: Government spending and long term economic growth. […]
Sessions Delivers Closing Remarks On Lew Nomination
“This was the strategy: offer a plan that does nothing to alter our dangerous debt course while pretending the opposite. Then, once you’ve done that, attack anyone who dares to reduce the size of the bureaucracy. Attack anyone who suggests Washington is too powerful… It is time that we pointed out that the establishment they […]
Sessions Opens Debate On Opposition To Jack Lew Nomination
“Normally, and necessarily, the OMB director is the single office that drives efficiency and demands accountability on behalf of the President and the American people. In that aspect of his job, and in this time of surging debt, I rate Mr. Lew’s performance as an F… [It] was decided [that] Mr. Lew would go before […]
Immigration And The Welfare State
It is an explicit and unambiguous tenet in federal law that those granted entry into the U.S. must be able to support themselves financially. But the Obama Administration has aggressively defied this strict federal statute. What are new promises worth when existing law is unilaterally waived? Last year, the Ranking Members of Budget, Finance, Judiciary, […]
Jack Lew Complicit In Violation Of Law Aimed At Saving Medicare
Alarmed by the unsustainable growth of Medicare’s unfunded obligations and the direct threat this posed to seniors, Congress in 2003 enacted a legal requirement that the President submit legislation if the Medicare Trustees issue a funding warning for the program as part of their annual report. This provision of federal law is commonly known as […]
Sessions: DHS Letter Confirms Public Charge Immigration Law Not Being Enforced
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued a statement today regarding the long-delayed response from the Department of Homeland Security about the Administration’s apparent waiving of federal law with respect to welfare restrictions for immigrants. The response indicated that, in 2012, not a single immigrant was identified by the federal […]
At Budget Hearing, Sessions Presents Moral Case For Welfare Reform
“Since President Johnson’s Great Society, the federal government has spent $15 trillion dollars in the war on poverty. Yet the poverty rate has remained largely unchanged… Welfare is now the single largest item in the federal budget. It is larger than Medicare, larger than defense, larger than Social Security… Today, like in 1996, opponents of […]
Sessions Delivers Opening Statement At First Budget Hearing Of 2013
“It has been four years since the Democrat-led Senate has produced a budget as the law requires… I am glad that the Senate majority has relented and is going to do a budget this year, else I wonder what our Committee might find itself having to do—whether we would even need the Committee. So we […]
CBO’s Budget And Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 To 2023
Without a course correction, out-of-control spending will fuel a $9 trillion increase in the gross debt, further slowing the economy and limiting opportunity for millions of Americans.
Sessions: White House Must End Its Violation Of Federal Medicare Law
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the Committee’s oversight of Jack Lew’s role in the Administration’s defiance of Medicare law, as well as other controversies surrounding his nomination: “Jack Lew must never be Treasury Secretary. As director of the Office of Management and […]