Pete Sessions

And Mr. Orszag was a former Congressional Budget Office head and also was chosen by President Obama when he first came to office for that significant, premier center of the government, the Office of Management and Budget, a student of…

Well, first of all, we need to make sure that, as we look at all that we're spending in Washington, D.C., with not only the -- the entitlement spending, but also the bigger government, we cannot afford anymore.

We need to make sure that as we look at -- at all that we are spending in Washington, D.C., with not only the -- the entitlement spending, but also the bigger government, we cannot afford anymore.

The stimulus was excessive spending that did not meet the intended targets.

Well, I think that is important to note, and I would further note that every single Republican supported the McCaskill- Sessions amendment, but also 18 Democrats supported that. I believe that if we had the leadership just say yes instead…

Senator Claire McCaskill, my Democratic colleague from Missouri, and I have offered legislation that would essentially take the budget that was submitted last year, which had a 5-year number. The first-year numbers were not very good. I…

But the Democratic home State Senators refused to return their blue slips for any of these nominees for the Sixth Circuit. President Bush renominated all four on January 2003. This time the Democratic home State Senators returned their…

I wish to speak about the Senate's processing of judicial nominations, and I ask you to forgive me if I am a bit irritable, but we have had a lot of complaints about how fast President Obama's nominations are going forward. I think they…

I would like to share some thoughts about the surprising decisions that were noted in some of the media that the majority leader, certainly with the support of the administration, plans to introduce a very significant, very controversial…

I rise today to discuss the significant threat prostate cancer poses to the male population in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 217,000 American men will learn that they have prostate cancer in 2010…

Madam Speaker, last night at the Rules Committee, we had a very vigorous and spirited debate. It is continuing, although with less fervency, on the floor today about the insistence of the Democratic Party to blame corporations for the…

I rise today to discuss an important matter involving the future of the Tennessee Valley Authority. As you may know, TVA is led by a Board of Directors that consists of nine individuals appointed by the President and confirmed by the…

I appreciate Senator Schumer's legislation, and I also would support it. It is clearly a step in the right direction, and it is one of the things we need to do. I guess as we leave this Congress to go home and get ready to campaign, many…

I would like to express my appreciation to my staff who worked tirelessly during these past few months on this nomination. They spent many long hours combing through and distilling information in hundreds of thousands of documents provided…

I will say that one of the unjustifiable actions of the judicial activist philosophy that is too much afoot in America today is their willingness to completely be oblivious to plain constitutional rights, things that are flatly stated, and…

The question becomes: Does it impact a fundamental right? At some point it does. We decided you cannot put a poll tax on people to say you have to pay money for your right to vote. People do not have to pay for the right to speak out about…

The McDonald case was a hugely important case. It dealt for the first time in recent memory with the question of whether the second amendment, which had been held in Heller to apply to the Federal Government, whether it passed through the…

Well, most nominees have not had a record on it, but it is interesting, and perhaps noteworthy, that President Obama, who himself has not been a strong supporter of the second amendment rights, and many of his supporters and Cabinet…

Well, did our Founding Fathers actually know this? What was their intent with regard to preserving the right to keep and bear arms when this language went into the Constitution?

I agree. I think we must study what our Constitution says, what the people who wrote it meant, and what rights the people retained for themselves when they created it and gave certain limited rights to the Federal Government. I do believe…

If the Senator will yield, this is a troubling thing. Justice Scalia has been a fierce critic of this, pointing out: What country do you pick? Do judges get to pick their own? It seems to me, from what the Senator said, it is clear that…

I notice today that a single sitting Federal judge in California has just wiped out proposition 8 that was passed by a majority of the people in California. I guess there were millions voting on that, which simply said a marriage should be…

Given our tiny membership, meager budget, and lack of any office space, we possess neither the time nor the resources to routinely schedule campus rooms or advertise extensively for outside organizations, as is the norm for most recruiting…

I wonder how the Senator thinks they felt when they faced this kind of discrimination. ... to treat people who were designated by the President of the United States to be recruiters, to motivate other young men and women to join what I…

Well, you know, I think it might. If they have good judgment and are good people, I am not so worried where they come from. But when you have five people on the Supreme Court--and we will have that if she is confirmed--all from one of the…