Jeff Sessions

We simply have to get our fiscal house in order.

If we could identify regulations that were unnecessary and eliminate those, would that allow more growth to occur?

I think we have to talk about that, and you note that the big programs are the ones that are drawing a larger percentage of the taxpayers' revenue each year, are leading us and accelerating our debt course.

So I hope our distinguished Chair will join me in opposing any plan from the President that would spend more than we agreed to spend under Ryan-Murray.

The recovery from the 2009 recession seemed to be solid at first, but it has not come close to meeting the projections of the Obama administration's, OMB, the Federal Reserve, Congressional Budget Office, or others.

Will the Government of the United States execute the laws established by the duly elected Congress?

The court hammered the Commission and Congress and declared it was an absolute violation of multiple requirements of law

It is good that under the leadership of Chairman Macfarlane, and with the support of her four colleagues, the NRC has stabilized.

You are indeed an excellent chairman; work hard, you take responsibility for this.

I would like to see clean nuclear power be used more around the country.

Excessive regulation at this time of real competition from low cost natural gas... could see a collapse in the future of nuclear power

Wouldn't you agree that the court's decision was a real critique of the failure to act on the congressionally approved Yucca Mountain site?

I just think it is a huge issue. I hope that you will talk with the President--you are close to him--and begin to push back or pull back from this position that I think is going to be adverse to the health of America.

I would just note, as I watch your statistics, that your prosecutions, total prosecutions of gun crimes declined 5.2 percent this year from last year.

We have created a system that requires certainty in punishment, swifter trials, and the result is a very great drop in the crime rate.

I find it beyond comprehension.

We just have to be careful as we go forward.

Without any explicit, express authorization from the elected representatives of the American people, under this decision you have made, the Environmental Protection Agency can go into any American's backyard, prohibit their barbecue grill…

It is misleading and just plain incorrect to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate time scales either in the United States or globally.

Climate scientists are telling you it is not warming to the degree predicted, in fact, it hasn't really warmed at all in the last 15 years.

I hope you will review that and be accurate when you discuss as a public official the facts, when you relate them to the American people. And I believe your facts are wrong.

I would certainly agree with the 97 percent as you framed it, that human action has caused more CO2 to be emitted into the atmosphere.

The truth is that predictions of warming simply have not occurred at the rate the experts have predicted.

It is a fair question to ask this morning, what is right and what is wrong with the President's climate agenda.

There is common ground