Jeff Sessions

That is not acceptable.

I just wish we could go faster and make a decision.

Is there a danger and what do you think about it?

I would just say if this were a private business and they got a major supplier that they no longer find reliable, they would get busy right now.

Does NIRPS have the people with the skills and experience to assist the Air Force in this effort to develop a domestic replacement for the RD-180 Russian engine?

It is time for us to rise to the occasion and fix this situation.

We do not have assured access to space, as Senator Nelson has raised, and we have to have that.

If you consider space a national security priority, then you absolutely have to consider assured access to space a national security priority.

We will not accept racial discrimination and voting discrimination in our State, and the Federal Government is also there and prepared to step in.

I voted for the Voting Rights Act extension 8 years ago in this Congress, but I knew then that Section 5 was problematic.

The right to vote, as you say, Dr. Johnson, is the cornerstone of the Republic.

We certainly have made some great progress in the air in America and the water is so much cleaner than it has been.

This is an important issue.

I know these are important issues to you and you have spent a lot of time and effort in mastering these issues.

Our staff has done a study on the federalism aspects of EPA. The Clean Air Act establishes a cooperative federalism between States and EPA.

CO2 is a different kettle of fish. It is not particulates and NOx and SOx. It is plant food and it is not a pollutant in any normal definition of it.

Without an explicit appropriation, any money spent on this program would be an illegal transfer of funds.

Under our constitutional system of government, HHS must receive an appropriation from Congress before it can make payments to insurance companies that lose money under this law.

Both of those programs are on a path that cannot be sustained.

This deficit financial situation in America is nowhere close to being fixed.

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget is one of the most critical positions in our Government, entrusted with overseeing our massive Federal budget during a time of great financial danger.

If we do not do something about this now when we are in the world of 2 percent interest, it is going to be too late when it is 5 or 6 percent, because all fiscal hell is going to break loose around here.

I just have to tell you, people in this Government need to follow the law.

I am gravely worried about interest, and the problem is we are in a wonderland of 2 percent interest that is not going to last forever.

Only weeks ago, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office reaffirmed in testimony that we are on an unsustainable path financially and face the risk of a fiscal crisis as a result of our debt.