The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015” in a mostly partisan 242-179 vote, that saw three Democrats vote for it and one Republican vote against it. All of Alabama’s Republican representatives voted in favor of the bill. The House passed the
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ALGOP Responds to Hagel Nomination
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Immigration And The Welfare State
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ROBY: “Mr. President, the sequester was your idea”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Martha Roby and the House Republican Leadership today pressed the White House for active leadership in finding a way to avoid sequester military cuts, reminding President Obama that the threatened cuts were his idea to begin with. “The President last night said that the sequester was a bad idea.
Sessions Rebukes President Over Closed-Door Immigration Meeting With Business Execs, Special Interests
“President Obama is meeting privately with the most powerful men in finance and business to discuss how to bring in more low-wage labor at a time when millions of Americans can’t earn enough to pay their bills. He’s meeting with progressive activists to discuss amnesty and chain migration… [But] who at the White House is
Sessions Receives Naval Distinguished Public Service Award
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Ranking member of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, received the Distinguished Public Service Award today from the Department of the Navy, its highest award given to those outside naval service. Sessions issued the following statement: “I am moved and humbled by this
Aderholt Supports the Require a PLAN Act
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Sessions Comments On Projected 80 Percent Growth In Welfare Spending
“We must return to the moral principles of the 1996 reform and the idea that, over time, welfare damages not only the Treasury but the recipient.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today concerning the projection, based on Congressional Research Service data, that welfare spending
REP. BROOKS PROPOSES AMENDMENT TO FUND AID FOR HURRICANE SANDY VICTIMS
Washington, D.C. – Last night, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) appeared before the House Rules Committee and presented an amendment to H.R. 152, the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, that would fund approximately $21 billion in Hurricane Sandy relief costs. Brooks’ amendment diverts funds from foreign aid to natural disaster aid for American victims on American soil. Rep.
VIDEO: On Kudlow, Sessions Discusses Growing Push To Condition Debt Increase On Senate Budget Compliance
On Kudlow, Sessions Discusses Growing Push To Condition Debt Increase On Senate Budget Compliance “Just seventeen months ago the President got a 2.1 trillion dollar increase in the debt limit of the United States so he could continue to borrow that much money. He has already gone through that. December 31st, Secretary Geithner said