Jeff Sessions

It seems to me, having been in the shipyard in Alabama, that this ship, it almost looks like an automobile plant...

Thank you for the leadership of this subcommittee and the leadership you're providing in the Senate. You do a great job and it's an honor to work with you.

I think it has maybe a role, an expanded role to play in the future.

You just can't keep borrowing and spending.

We just can't keep doing this every year.

We were promised massive civilian furloughs that didn't occur.

One of the problems we have is that the President and the Democratic Senate has said: We will not give another dime to DOD unless we increase spending.

It's really important because the Marine Corps is such a critical part of our defense structure, and in a crisis, that's who we call.

We need to talk about it. We are spending right now indeed a significant amount of money on this project.

Surely if one has money, some wealth, that money should be applied for the maximum benefit for the maximum number of people.

I think our job needs to be helping our people in America get higher wages and better jobs.

American workers are, indeed, right to believe that Washington actions are stacking the deck against them.

We have no vision, no coherence, no driving ability to move people from poverty to productivity.

The argument over taxes and economic growth is complex, but in 1981, the Reagan plan took the marginal tax rate from 70 percent to 50 percent, and I think that was a positive step for the economy.

Well, I think that is exactly right.

A sober review of the data reveals that the economic situation for too many Americans remains unacceptable.

Millions of Americans have left the workforce entirely, bringing the workforce participation rate to its lowest level since 1978.

We were told that massive debts accumulated over the last five years would lead to prosperity, but we are now left with none of the prosperity and all of the debt.

We should consider all the comments we have had today and keep working on it.

You cannot borrow your way to prosperity.

If we started over, it seems to me, and we decided we were going to refurbish our nuclear arsenal, wouldn't we just construct a building or so somewhere, or create something, and hire a lean group of people and get the job done?

I believe that this report you've submitted to us is very valuable.

I do believe it's very important, and hopefully we'll be able to have a good discussion today and we'll be able to study your recommendations.

I wish Congress and the President would allow new weapons to be built. I think that'd be safer and cheaper and better.

The existing governance, structures, and practices are most certainly inefficient and, in some instances, ineffective, putting the entire enterprise at risk over the long term.