Jeff Sessions actually said...

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

Our broken Tax Code is but one expression of the burden bad fiscal policy places on the economy.

We must start defining compassion and helpfulness, not by how much money we spend but how many people we actually help to remove themselves ...

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...