Jeff Sessions

Are you confident that the EPA has used the best available science in its nutrient rulemaking process?

Senator Sessions, if you asked how many jobs are in our industry, I say all of them.

At a time of job danger in America, we need to consider that as we go forward.

I think these are complex issues, and I do think science can help us best address how to confront them.

I think States and local communities do deserve respect. They know these waterways.

Well, Florida Department of Agriculture estimates $900 million and $1.6 billion in annual implementation costs just for agricultural land uses.

We are trying to do something about hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

I believe this will be a healthy hearing, and will deal with the tension of a desire to utilize local people...

Discrete, special acreages or areas are often the biggest polluting sources.

I have concluded that nutrient and sediment runoff is probably the greatest threat to our bays.

It would be unacceptable, I think, to allow these unfair cuts.

I guess, I think it is important for all of us to realize we will not balance the budget by the war costs coming down.

I believe it requires a single report after the conclusion and it is pretty obvious you have not done that.

Well, no, that is not what the statute requires, would you not agree, Mr. Jaczko?

I think you should comply with the statute.

Well, did you seek a formal opinion from counsel as to whether an event on the other side of the world would give the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the commission chairman, the power to assume emergency powers that would in some…

Have you issued a report of what you did during the course of that time?

I do think it is important to keep in mind, as Senator Alexander noted, that we have not had one single event at an American nuclear power generating plant where an individual has lost their life or sustained a serious injury as a result…

NEI, Nuclear Energy Institute, says that we have the gold standard for nuclear regulation and I hope that is true, and we would like it to be true.

Wouldn't you agree that that is what it seems to say plainly?

We have to set a national policy, and we have to decide, first of all, how many can be allowed.

I think that is a governmental function, frankly.

This is a political deal. I know how it worked out.

I have consistently endorsed the Canadian plan of immigration. I would take it immediately.

The comprehensive bill was not a good piece of legislation, the American people agreed with that and it failed