Jeff Sessions

ALGOP Responds to Hagel Nomination

ALGOP CHAIR RESPONDS TO HAGEL NOMINATION Montgomery, AL – Bill Armistead, Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party issued the following statement today after the United States Senate voted to confirm President Obama’s nominee, former Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense: “I want to express my thanks to Senator Sessions for standing up against President

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Immigration And The Welfare State

Immigration And The Welfare State New Data Reveals How The Obama Administration Defies Federal Law   It is an explicit and unambiguous tenet in federal law that those granted entry into the U.S. must be able to support themselves financially. But the Obama Administration has aggressively defied this strict federal statute.­ What are new promises worth

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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

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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

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Budget Cmte. Ranking Member Announces Opposition To Jack Lew Nomination

“Jack Lew must never be Secretary of the Treasury. His testimony before the Senate Budget Committee less than two years ago was so outrageous and false that it alone disqualifies… He is also the architect of two of the worst budgets in American history, both of which received zero votes in the Senate…   For

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Sessions Comments On Senate Sustaining Point Of Order On Tester Bill

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today after the Senate voted to uphold a budget point of order he raised against the sportsmen’s bill, which violated budget levels agreed to by Congress and the President:  “I’m pleased my colleagues agreed that the Senate should abide

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Sessions Corrects Reid, Durbin: Treasury Borrows Money To Repay Social Security So It Can Pay Recipients

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today about inaccurate remarks made recently by Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) concerning the fiscal impact of Social Security: “Getting the United States off our dangerous debt course will require an honest and forthright assessment of the

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Daily Caller: Obama USDA Met 30 Times With Mexican Gov’t To Promote Food-Stamp Use Among Mexican Immigrants

“‘Our nation is nearing a debt crisis and yet the Obama Administration has conducted thirty activities and meetings with the Mexican government to place even more foreign nationals on American welfare,’ [Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff] Sessions said. ‘The number of non-citizens receiving food stamp support has doubled since the president took office. Such a

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