Jeff Sessions

We need a balanced approach in reduction of spending and tightening of our belt.

The indiscriminate cuts of the sequester are truly penny wise and pound foolish.

I truly believe with the Chairman that the strength of the American experience is our rule of law.

I do not know where the cases are nationwide. In recent weeks we looked at gun prosecutions. They have been dropping.

It is not a balanced approach if you are not going to raise any new revenues.

I am hearing from some of my friends in Alabama that they think cuts of public defenders and all are more than they should be.

Justice delayed is indeed justice denied.

It is not fair when Apple is taking all of its intellectual property and pretending it exists in Ireland.

Why did they wait--like they did the Defense Department.

I do believe that the Chief Justice and most of our judiciary do believe in efficiencies and are working in that regard.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

We don't want to take everything, but there is a unique way of life being driven to extinction in Apalachicola.

Alabama urges this Committee to strengthen the language of the Water Supply Act so that Congress' proper role in controlling local water supply uses of Federal reservoirs is maintained.

You have to know that maybe other Senators do not feel the problems of Alabama, Georgia and Florida as the Senators from these three States do but it is a very real situation.

You don't get as much augmentation if the water has been drawn out to be consumed as you could get if it were not drawn.

It is hard to have negotiations if we are looking the other way on the withdrawal rates from those two lakes.

I am asking a little more than that. I am saying will you ensure that you follow the recommendations of Chairman Boxer and Ranking Member Vitter and not favor any one State but follow the law?

That is an overstatement of it, I think, and you need to know this.

I am informed that Cobb County, by its own admission, has exceeded for decades the contractual amount of water storage.

I agree. I don't think it would be necessary to go to zero but I do think there are alternatives as that study showed.

I have talked to Governor Bentley about it. I know he cares about this issue deeply and he is a good and decent man.

The facts simply do not support that Georgia or the Corps are to blame for these effects.

Georgia wants Alabama to take less water than it has always received historically so that Atlanta may take more water.

Does the Corps agree with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's assessment that projected increases in Georgia's consumptive uses will increase the frequency and duration of low flows in Florida's Apalachicola River?

With regard to Lake Lanier, we have the Eleventh Circuit opinion. It has been cited as a victory for the Georgia position...