Jack Lew: Architect Of Two Failed Budgets And A Campaign To Mislead The Country
Mr. Lew’s budgets, and his egregious disregard for the truth, jettisoned an urgent opportunity to achieve fiscal reform and, in so doing, placed this nation and its citizens in financial danger. These actions alone are disqualifying.
Sessions Comments On Jack Lew’s Role In Violating Federal Law
“The Secretary of the Treasury is the premier financial post in government and our financial ambassador to the world. How can we place in that post a man who has consistently placed his own partisan interests above the financial well-being of our constituents?” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, […]
Committee GOP Launches Inquiry On Jack Lew’s Complicity In Violating Federal Law
“We therefore request the following submissions be sent to Congress so that we may properly consider Mr. Lew’s nomination: 1. A detailed legislative proposal responsive to the latest Medicare funding warning to bring the administration into compliance with federal law; 2. All documents, electronic or otherwise, received, reviewed or authored by Mr. Lew regarding responding […]
Murray’s Deficit Reduction Goal Flawed And Dangerous
Because it is central to claims made by both the Chairman and the President, this paper examines the validity of the $1.4 trillion estimate as a measure of deficit reduction and finds it deeply—indeed, dangerously—in error.
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?
Sessions Confronts Democrat Leaders On Budget Games; Senate ‘Failing Miserably’ To Do Its Job
“Paul Ryan is leading. Speaker Boehner is leading. House Republicans are leading. But Senate Democrats, who control this chamber—who asked for this job—are refusing to allow a budget to move forward. They are refusing to share with the American people the contents of the plan they crafted behind closed doors—a plan they claim exists. “I […]
Issue 1: Sequestration After The Fiscal Cliff
Sessions Comments On Majority Relenting, Promising Senate Budget Mark-Up And Regular Order
“I have repeatedly and emphatically called for an end to the Senate Democrats’ brazen legal defiance in this time of national fiscal emergency… To compel Senate action I have introduced legislation, blocked recess, and encouraged the use of the debt ceiling as leverage. Now, with their pay threatened, and long-simmering public anger growing, Senate Democrats […]
Sessions Comments On House Effort To Force Senate To Pass A Budget
“The House must be steadfast. It is unthinkable that Senator Reid and Chairman Murray would put the nation through turmoil because they refuse to do their moral and statutory duty to produce a budget… It will not be easy because the challenge is great—and has become greater each year as a result of inaction by […]
Budget Committee Republicans To Murray: Production Of Budget ‘Prerequisite’ Of Fiscal Reform
“The suggested schedule we offer below would result in regular meetings and a timeline that leads to the completion of a budget resolution in accordance with the statutory requirements… We believe that work on a Senate budget is an essential prerequisite of any fiscal reform that takes place this year.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), […]