Sessions Delivers Opening Statement At Hearing On President’s Education Budget
“Congress and the President agreed to certain spending limits, but now you are simply proposing to spend well above that… This is not acceptable. If you and the Administration want to spend more money on education, you must make it a priority, reducing spending somewhere else… More federal money is not a substitute for the […]
Ranking Member Sessions Statement On April Jobs Report
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the April jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “For every one job added, almost three people left the workforce. In fact, all of the decrease in the unemployment rate is attributed to the 988,000 more […]
Sessions Investigates Disability Benefits Being Awarded On Basis Of Inability To Speak English
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, sent a letter today to the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration regarding high rates of approval for Social Security Disability claims, including the fact that the inability to communicate in English is being treated as a determinative factor in getting approved […]
Ranking Member Sessions On Nomination of President’s Budget Director To Head HHS, Implement Health Law
“Director Burwell’s nomination must and will be considered fairly, and with an open mind… [She] has a comparatively thin resume for the demands now placed on this position—she has never run anything on the scale of HHS—and, during her short stint as budget director, she did more to obscure the nation’s poor financial state than […]
Sessions Questions National Endowment For The Humanities Over Dubious Expenditures
“News reports indicate that NEH has contributed close to $1 million to the [Popular Romance Project]… The program ‘will explore the fascinating, often contradictory origins and influences of popular romance as told in novels, films, comics, advice books, song, and internet fan fiction…’ Now is not the time for us to come up with creative […]
Sessions: Americans Are Right To Believe Washington Has Stacked The Deck Against Them
“Washington and Wall Street are booming. The greatest growth area in the United States is Washington, DC… Lobbyists, consultants, and politicians are doing quite well. But median household incomes have declined by $2,268 since 2009… Tax, spend, borrow, and regulate is not only dangerous, but it won’t create jobs and higher wages. We must act […]
Sessions Writes To Small Business Administration About Cost Of Loan Program
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released a letter today sent to U.S. Small Business Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet concerning the cost of SBA’s 7(a) loan program. The text of Sessions’ letter follows: “Dear Administrator Contreras-Sweet: Encouraging lending to small businesses is one of the primary purposes of the Small […]
Sessions Delivers Opening Statement At Hearing On Economic Challenges Facing Working Americans
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following prepared remarks today at a Budget Committee hearing on opportunity, mobility, and inequality in today’s economy: “Thank you, Chairman Murray, for holding this important discussion today. A sober review of the data reveals that the economic situation for too many […]
Sessions Delivers Opening Remarks At Hearing Examining President’s Budget With Secretary Lew
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following prepared remarks today at a Budget Committee hearing on the President’s FY 2015 budget proposal with testimony from Treasury Secretary Jack Lew: “Thank you, Secretary Lew, for appearing before us today. In 2009, the Administration wagered America’s financial future on […]
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 […]