Jeff Sessions

Jeff Sessions will be a very good Attorney General and I have no problem with his character as it relates to his willingness to enforce our laws.

Government officials be neutral vis-a-vis religion.

Islam is a toxic ideology, that is hostility.

I do not think gays and lesbians and women are victims of discrimination, that is a blindness.

Senator Sessions stated yesterday that there is not enough financial support to deport 800,000 people, and at the same time he opposed every single legislation that would have given them a way to become legal.

Even though he may have some policy differences or had cast a vote against a bill in the Senate, he would respect the Constitution and enforce the law.

That is a pernicious and dangerous shift in the general attitude toward our police and it is totally without foundation.

I ultimately convinced that Senator Sessions would take the appropriate actions to enforce the law as written.

The Attorney General is not the President's lawyer.

More needs to be done. We need to join closer hands.

I don't characterize that as a sexual assault. That is a stretch.

A good day for the South.

Senator Sessions has worked tirelessly and faithfully for the majority of his adult life.

Without Jeff Sessions, I believe we might be here today still trying to remain unsolved.

Bills like this, which acknowledge and respect the sacrifices made by the rank and file truly resonate with my members and with the public safety community.

He helped build bipartisan support for the legislation, which passed the Senate and then the House before being signed into law by the President.

Senator Sessions has demonstrated commitment not just to so-called law-and-order issues, but also to an issue very important to my members: officer safety.

He has been a true partner to law enforcement in his time as a U.S. Attorney, Attorney General for the State of Alabama, and throughout his tenure in the United States Senate.

I have never testified with more optimism and enthusiasm than I do today for Senator Jeff Sessions.

As the Judiciary Committee's Ranking Member during that time in which this legislation was pending, Senator Sessions played a significant role in helping us to craft a bill that would gain bipartisan support and eventually passed Congress…

Senator Sessions helped craft the legislative language that became the DNA Fingerprint Act to provide Federal authorities with the authorization to collect DNA from arrestees.

His leadership on this matter and his leadership on the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest has been key to forestalling an even deeper downward trajectory for Black workers in this country.

I do not characterize that behavior as sexual assault.

No one has been more committed or engaged than Senator Jeff Sessions in protecting and enhancing the prospects of Black workers in America.

His most profound and important impact is on preserving and protecting the rights of American workers, particularly Black workers.