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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

So sometimes you just get caught up in things. Issues become big and an individual becomes a focus of the controversy.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

The problem is your policies. Tax more, spend more, borrow more, regulate more, Obamacare more.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

This is catastrophic. This is absolutely one of the most dangerous trends we have seen in some time.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

We have created a system that creates a benefit, an increasing benefit when the economy grows, and we do not have enough money coming in both overall and per individual.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

I think we are running out of money because it is not actuarially sound, is it?

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

And the law, of course, requires that. It is just too often not being followed in an effective way.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

On the 50th anniversary of the Selma march that is approaching--people were denied systematically fundamental rights as citizens of the United States of America.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

the reputation of this great Department is being eroded.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

I certainly agree. I am a little surprised it took you that long, but the Attorney General's statement was breathtaking to me.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

the failure to defend DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

It does not say that ICE has an opinion about this, it says they shall be deported.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

somebody needs to be asking themselves who is protecting the American worker, the people who are paying the salaries of you, the President and all of us.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

Well, and do you agree with Professor Turley that one of the most significant overreaches is the President's Executive actions with regard to amnesty?

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

We are entering into an utterly lawless system here. Nothing Congress passes, apparently, has the ability to be effectuated in reality.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has adopted rules governing its procedures for the 114th Congress. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 2, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, on behalf of myself and Senator Brown, I ask…

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

the person unlawfully here magically, at this moment, becomes eligible to compete against an unemployed American truck driver, and I think that is bizarre.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

the common thread that binds all these challenges together, in my judgment, is a Department of Justice that is very deeply politicized.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 27, 2015

It is quite different, as I think Mr. Kirsanow points out, to demand your lawful rights as an American and to ask for--insist that civil rights apply to those who enter the country unlawfully to have these benefits.

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