Ranking Member Sessions Comments On New CBO Baseline Projections
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the new 10-year baseline from the Congressional Budget Office: “This morning, the Budget Committee held a hearing with the ostensible purpose of reassuring us that all is well, that the economy is getting stronger, and that there […]
Ranking Member Sessions Comments On State Of The Union Address
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement this evening regarding President Obama’s State of the Union address: “President Obama says he is concerned about low wages and chronic unemployment for American workers. Yet his signature second-term legislative item is an immigration bill that would immediately and […]
Sessions: We Owe Vets ‘Swift, Diligent Action’ To Fix Pension Cuts
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding testimony from a senior Department of Defense official regarding recent cuts to veterans’ pension payments: “I was pleased to see Christine Fox, Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Defense, agree with the need to fix the […]
Sessions: SOTU Message Undermined By President’s Wage-Depressing Policies
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following prepared remarks on the Senate floor regarding President Obama’s expected call for the House to pass an immigration bill that would dramatically increase the number of low-skilled workers brought into the country: “President Obama is preparing to deliver a State […]
Sessions Details Reid’s Subversion Of Senate’s Historic Role
“The Senate is where the great issues of our time are supposed to be examined, reviewed, and discussed before the whole nation. Yet, in the last few years, we have witnessed the dramatic erosion of Senators’ rights and the dismantling of the open legislative process… All of us, both parties, have a responsibility to stop […]
Sessions: More Work Needed To Fix Pensions For Veterans
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the military pension provision in the omnibus: “I was pleased that the House-Senate package includes a provision restoring the pensions for disabled veterans, after we called attention to the fact that wounded warriors would be impacted by […]
Sessions Delivers Address On Poverty And Unemployment In America
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following prepared remarks on the Senate floor yesterday addressing the issue of persistent, long-term unemployment: Today, President Obama delivered remarks on the growing problem of poverty and chronic unemployment that has occurred during the five years of his presidency. Just this […]
Ranking Member Sessions On Jobs Report: Nearly 5 People Left Workforce For Each 1 Job Added
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement on the December jobs report: “Today’s jobs report underscores a deeper problem facing our economy: a large and growing block of people who are chronically jobless and completely outside the workforce. In December, the economy added only 74,000 jobs […]
Ranking Member Sessions Responds To Obama’s Speech On ‘Promise Zones’
“It represents an admission that five years of tax, spend, borrow, and regulate have produced economic misery for countless Americans.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today in response to President Obama’s address on chronic unemployment: “The President today announced five ‘promise zones’ scattered throughout […]
Ranking Member Sessions Comments On Passage Of Ryan-Murray Spending Package
“Majority Leader Reid rushed through this closed-door deal without a single amendment.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement tonight after the Senate voted 64-36 to adopt the Ryan-Murray spending package: “I appreciate the earnest work that went into crafting this proposal and the sincere policy […]