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 […]
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 […]
Sessions Urges ‘National Effort To Reduce The Welfare Rolls And Grow The Employment Rolls’
“The centerpiece of the strategy should be a consuming national effort to reduce the welfare rolls and grow the employment rolls… Imagine how much could we could do if we redirected [our $750 billion yearly welfare budget] to focus on job training, job placing, and work preparation. Wouldn’t that be a better, more productive, and […]
Ranking Member Sessions Opposes Debt Limit Increase
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the debt limit increase: “This measure would increase America’s debt limit approximately $1 trillion while failing to reduce spending by a single penny. And the legislation takes no steps whatsoever to eliminate gimmicks that allow spending above […]
Sessions Delivers Statement At Hearing To Examine CBO’s Obamacare Report And Budget Outlook
“The President said his stimulus bill, the Affordable Care Act, increased taxes and regulations, and more government spending would result in a strong [economic recovery]… Sadly, CBO’s report recognizes that the President’s 2010 health care law is a hammer blow to lower-income workers… It is our duty to take principled, achievable steps that will benefit […]
Sessions: Time To Begin National Conversation About Moving People Off Welfare And Into The Workforce
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the state of U.S. labor markets: “Today’s jobs report provides further evidence of the damage done to labor markets by the slow economic recovery. One of the most troubling factors is the sheer number of people who […]
Senate Budget Committee Analysis Of CBO Baseline Outlook
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued a statement today as the Committee released a staff analysis of the new Congressional Budget Office baseline outlook. The analysis follows Sessions’ comments: “CBO’s stunning report shows that our fiscal outlook is markedly worse than in its previous estimate, with deficits up by […]
Sessions Delivers Opening Statement At First Budget Hearing Of The Year
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following prepared remarks today at the Budget Committee hearing on the economic outlook for 2014: “The recovery from the 2009 recession seemed to be solid at first, but it has not come close to meeting the projections of the Administration (OMB), […]