Jeff Sessions actually said...

"By creating a new and a legally tenuous, I suggest, definition of 'permanent partnership,' we would be expanding the avenue for fraud and abuse."

"I think the clarity of the preference, the benefit--the clarity of the benefit provided to a traditional marriage relationship provides some help in keeping integrity in the system and its being abuse..."

"How about the situation--isn't it true that if you have a spouse in Colombia, let us say, that spouse would go to the U.S. consulate on Colombia and would present a marriage certificate or some docume..."

"Our Congress has voted not long ago overwhelmingly that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman."