Following Sessions’ Inquiry, HHS Quietly Scraps No-Bid Contract For Chicago Company To Promote Obamacare To Prisoners
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, announced today that the Department of Health and Human Services had canceled a no-bid contract to “increase insurance enrollment for… individuals involved in the criminal justice system.” The sole-source contract had been awarded to Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities, a community advocacy organization […]
Sessions Asks Agencies To Provide Data On Costly Alternative Fuel Vehicle Acquisitions
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released a letter today sent to Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell regarding her agency’s procurement of alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) in an effort to meet legal mandates and presidential directives. Identical copies of the letter were sent to agency heads at the […]
Sessions Investigates Grant Process, Questionable Use Of Funds At National Humanities Endowment
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released a letter today sent to National Endowment for the Humanities Acting Chairman Carol Watson regarding the grant process at her agency, as well as the expenditure of public funds to distribute books related to Islam to 900 libraries across the country. The […]
Sessions Comments On September Jobs Report
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report that the economy added just 148,000 jobs during the month of September: “Today’s jobs report underscores the real problem in today’s labor market: growing joblessness among working-age adults despite modest […]
Sessions Delivers 2nd Address In Series On American Workers, Calls On Both Parties To Reject Special Interests
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following speech today as the second in a series of addresses analyzing the state of the American economy: “Last Thursday I delivered the first in a series of speeches looking at the state of our economy. I have directed my […]
Ranking Member Sessions Responds To Secretary Sebelius’ False Claim On Part-Time Work
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today in response to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ claim that there has not been an increase in part-time work: “I was astounded to learn that Secretary Sebelius—a top member of the President’s cabinet and […]
Sessions Issues Statement On Yellen Nomination To Chair Federal Reserve
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the selection of Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve and on the need for an era of “humility”: “I intend to fairly but rigorously scrutinize this nominee. What we need in the Fed is a policy […]
Sessions Issues Statement After Voting Against Debt Hike, Spending Bill
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement tonight after voting against legislation to increase the debt limit and to adopt a “continuing resolution” without reforms: “In the last five years, Washington spent more than $15 trillion and added more than $6 trillion to the debt. Never […]
Sessions Catalogs Destructive Impacts Of Obamacare
“The President’s health care law will worsen, not improve, our fiscal outlook. It’s hurting our economy, it’s harming millions of Americans, and it’s growing the size and scope of government. Congress must permanently repeal this unworkable law.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following speech on the […]
Sessions Opening Statement: Washington’s Policies Limiting Economic Growth And Opportunity
“We are quietly downsizing the American Dream. The ‘new normal’ really refers to the increasingly modest dreams hardworking families allow themselves. Maybe education after high school, maybe retirement, maybe a paid-up home and car when you stop working… but [these things are] increasingly not certain and perhaps not even likely… Let’s take this [time] to […]