Must-Reads
Jun 18 2012
Republicans Want Food Stamps Cut in Big Farm Bill
By: Jim Abrams
‘This is more than just a financial issue. It is a moral issue,’ says Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., one of several Republicans pushing for cuts in spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP… Sessions points out that the federal government now spends twice as much on food stamps as it does on fixing the nation’s roads and bridges, and that SNAP is now the gover...
May 21 2012
GOP Blasts Million Dollar Judicial Conference in Hawaii
By: Sunlen Miller
“In a scolding letter, two Republican senators blasted the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for holding a lavish tax-payer funded judicial conference scheduled for this August in Maui, Hawaii, that ‘reads more like a vacation than a business trip.’ … In light of the GSA scandal the senators call this ‘tone deaf’ for the government to ‘throw lavish events on the taxpayer dime.’ The Ninth Circuit def...
Apr 03 2012
Another Case Against ObamaCare
By: Steve Moore
Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee released an analysis that draws on models from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and found that "the U.S. health-related unfunded obligations increased by $17 trillion since the law was passed, from $65 trillion to $82 trillion over the next 75 years." Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama says this is "more than twice the unfunded liability of Social ...
Feb 14 2012
Republicans Accuse Obama of Using Gimmicks in Budget
By: Jonathan Weisman
At the heart of Republican objections is accounting. Mr. Obama boasted of $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next 10 years in his proposal. Republican budget writers on Capitol Hill saw a fraction of that, as little as $300 billion... if Congress and the president did nothing but continue current policies, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee, sai...
Feb 08 2012
Frustrated GOP freshmen target gimmicks that make it hard to cut the budget
By: Lori Montgomery
"Concord [Coalition] and other bipartisan budget groups have praised some of the Republican reform proposals, particularly a package known as the Honest Budget Act that was drafted by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and sponsored in the House by 27 GOP freshmen."
Nov 23 2011
Sen. Sessions’s analysis: Defense cut far more than other programs under sequestration
By: Pete Kasperowicz
According to Sessions’s analysis, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and income-support programs such as unemployment insurance would be nearly untouched by sequestration — compared to President Obama’s budget plan — even after cuts to planned spending. These programs would grow 112 percent, 73 percent, 66 percent and 11 percent, respectively, under the sequestration, about the same as they grew ...
Oct 05 2011
Not the Right Way to Run a Railroad
By: Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Gordon Gray
Enter the new(ish) ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, Jeff Sessions, and the Honest Budget Act. The Act is a serious attempt to wade into the budget process to address the fundamental flaws that have allowed Congress to avoid the difficult trade-offs that are the essence of governing in a fiscally constrained environment.
Sep 20 2011
FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries?
By: Stephen Ohlemacher
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he wants to make sure millionaires are taxed at higher rates than their secretaries. The data say they already are.