Jeff Sessions

If you sign a mortgage that gives you a guaranteed right upon failure to pay to take the property back, and that is eroded significantly through a bankruptcy rule change, does that ripple through the system, as some have told us in the…

As decisively and with as much clarity as possible, the decision needs to be made that a company has a chance to succeed or it does not.

Wasn't that the whole point of the first oral argument?

I certainly would not, Senator Sessions, and I do not think that the Obama administration would either.

Surely you would agree that implicated those issues significantly.

I think Citizens United was a very important affirmation of a fundamental American liberty, it seems to me, enshrined in the First Amendment.

Well, she said in her argument, later I guess, 'We haven't done that yet,' but indicated that there might be a possibility it could be done...

I think it is a big issue, and sometimes you just have to decide those questions.

The sacred right of free speech is enshrined in our Republic from the beginning and one that becomes stronger when we protect it even for those who we disagree with.

We have seen narrow conservative majorities strike down economic regulations in the name of corporate rights before, and it always ends badly for the Court.

But Citizens United had an interest in winning the case, and they did raise the other issues...

Surely you would not contend that we ought to run a poll to decide how that is done.

Well, no, I think that is why they asked for new argument, and they made it publicly clear...

Citizens United is disappointing, Senator Sessions, even to those critics like me who acknowledge that it is principled, because it was so unnecessary.

I was disappointed--dismayed, really--to hear the President of the United States mischaracterize the decision of the Supreme Court.

I still continue to hope that Chief Justice Roberts has enough political savvy to avoid this backlash, but there is no doubt that the stakes could not be higher.

I just want to say, I learned something here, when I first came to the Senate, President Clinton had a lot of increases in the defense budget in the out-years.

I guess I see there is $5 billion for the first 5 years, but what kind of plan is there for the second?

If you want to look for a place to save money, I suggest that $12 billion would be a good place to start and that you have plenty of money to modernize our nuclear arsenal.

This is not going to be a pleasant process if you don't have us really good numbers that we can believe in.

We anticipate that identified funding levels for the out-years may not be sufficient to meet the post-NPR stockpile requirements.

Will not develop new nuclear warheads. LEPs will use only nuclear components based on previously tested designs.

I don't think it's critical to our national defense.

How important is it that the NNSA be able to expeditiously proceed with a nuclear and nonnuclear LEP on the B61?

Will not conduct nuclear tests, and will seek ratification and entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.