Jeff Sessions

We are not here fighting over spending and other issues and sacrifices... our economy is in danger.

No continuing resolution to fund the Government that fails to reduce spending will pass.

I do not think it is a matter of opinion. I believe, Mr. Lew, it is flatly in error, and it cannot continue.

The debt goes up every year, and the deficit is--the debt has increased--doubled over this period.

I believe any American that heard that would believe that this budget balances. It does not come close to do so.

The budget says it will save a trillion dollars over 10 years.

There is no dispute that I can see that your budget costs for not a single year in which we add less than $600 billion to the debt.

The President's budget would increase spending every single year, doubling the nation's debt by the end of his first term.

This idea that you are balancing the budget somehow when you are not is the Washington theory that got us into this fix.

We have to take the steps that we know need to be taken today to protect our people from danger in the future.

But we are adding to the balance and we are not cutting up the credit card.

I am going to oppose the high-speed rail idea. We do not have the money.

Financial crises provide the opportunity for improvement of efficiency and productivity.

Extensions are raising benefits.

I guess I have given him a hard time lately about not leading on the budget, and I think that was a valid criticism.

The reality politically is that it is not that American people oppose something like a value-added tax.

If we were running the Federal Government like many of the Governors are running their States, we would be a lot better off.

We do not have time to put off decisionmaking, and it is well that we are moving forward, and I support your strong leadership.

I so much appreciate your Statement that this Committee may be where the leadership has to come, and I would be there with you.

Well, forgive me if I do not think they are Masters of the Universe that fully understand the complexities of the market.

I think the point is well taken that by the Fed going down this line, people worry about the Fed.

Senator McCaskill and I offered legislation, and we got 59 votes, that would have made statutory caps using the President's budget.

I have been critical of the President's State of the Union address in which he spent very little time in an honest, direct, open way discussing with the American people why business as usual cannot continue.

This is a very difficult issue. I have been with my staff since I have been Ranking Member and I still do not have a handle on it.

I criticized the Bush administration. We had surpluses, and somehow it got around that deficits do not matter.