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Sen. Sessions appeared on ABC's 'This Week' with Christiane Amanpour to debate the recent downgrade of America's Credit from S&P and America's grow...
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Sen. Sessions appeared on ABC's 'This Week' with Christiane Amanpour to debate the recent downgrade of America's Credit from S&P and America's growing fiscal crisis. Sessions debated Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. During the interview, Sessions warned against tax increases saying that spending had surged dramatically under the president and "we've got to bring spending down, not increase the burden on the private sector."
He also explained the adverse affects our debt was having on our economy: "The debt is now 100 percent of GDP which is hammering our economy...that's why we're having the unexpected decline in growth that we've seen the first half of this year."
Sessions said the President, however was in denial and needed to rally the country behind needed reform:
"When you have a democratic senate that will not produce a budget - 830 days without a budget - a president who submitted the most irresponsible budget in history, who is continuing to talk about spending and investing more, whose secretary of education was demanding a 13% increase in the department of education next fiscal year, beginning October 1st, you know we're in denial."
"The president is going to have to look the American people in the eye and tell them we are on an unsustainable course...And if he asks us to reduce spending by 10% across the board, all departments and agencies, Congress would rally to him in a bipartisan way. But if he's going to deny we have a crisis, he's not going to have bipartisan support."
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AUGUST 1, WASHINGTON--Sen. Sessions appeared on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" to discuss his announcement that he would be voting against ...
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AUGUST 1, WASHINGTON--Sen. Sessions appeared on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" to discuss his announcement that he would be voting against the debt limit increase.
Said Sessions: "I have decided I will not vote for the bill, although I really respect the people who have worked on it and the fact that it does make some real progress towards reducing spending, [albeit] far less than we need. But as the Ranking Republican on the Budget Committee, they put in language that really undermines our ability to even have a budget next year. It would be the third consecutive year without a budget. So for me, that was a defining moment."
Sessions also confronted the suggestion that the Tea Party movement somehow refused to compromise, noting that the original House-passed budget cut far more than the spending cuts the House finally agreed to in an effort to produce a bill that could pass the Senate. Sessions said, "I think the Tea Party movement represented a spontaneous American expression of shock and concern over the spending that was going on in Washington. Members of Congress cannot possibly justify that they are borrowing 42 cents of every dollar that's spent. This is irresponsible. So they demanded change and elected a lot of new people. They've been called 'terrorists'; I would just say they put some terror in the hearts of big spenders."
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AUGUST 1, WASHINGTON--Sen. Sessions spoke on the Senate floor tonight to announce his opposition to the debt limit deal set to be voted on in the S...
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AUGUST 1, WASHINGTON--Sen. Sessions spoke on the Senate floor tonight to announce his opposition to the debt limit deal set to be voted on in the Senate tomorrow.
Although Sessions acknowledged that the spending cuts contained in the package represent a modest step in the right direction, he laid out serious concerns with the legislation, including:
* The fact that the bill was first introduced at 3 a.m. this morning, yet will be voted on by noon tomorrow--leaving little time to review or even read the bill
* The bill "deems" budget resolutions for the next two years, effectively allowing Senate Democrats to continue ignoring their basic, statutory responsibility to pass a budget plan for the nation
* The bill sets up a special joint committee that will recommend a deficit reduction package that can only be debated for a short time, and cannot be amended.
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AUGUST 1, WASHINGTON--Sen. Ron Johnson appeared on FOX News' "On the Record" last night to lay out his objections to the deficit reductio...
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AUGUST 1, WASHINGTON--Sen. Ron Johnson appeared on FOX News' "On the Record" last night to lay out his objections to the deficit reduction deal that was negotiated to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
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