Jeff Sessions actually said...

Excessive, non-productive spending and the consequently high and growing national debt hurt the pace of economic activity.

We thought we had a real opportunity to fix long-term entitlements in the 2011 Budget Control Act process.

I think then we would have to have a choice about whether we should then lower rates, which would be my personal choice, but more importantl...

I would suggest that this gives further credence to the argument that we have a difficult--we are not going to get very far, getting our way...