Coolidge/Dawes '24
11-12-2014, 06:39 PM
Article here (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/12/Sessions-Opposes-Omnibus-Harry-Reid-Not-Entitled-to-Bind-America).
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Incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions says it'd be smart for congressional Republicans to oppose any long-term omnibus spending bill in the lame duck session of Congress that begins this week. Sessions says that's because voters nationwide removed Democrats from power, so outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shouldn't get to "bind" the nation's fiscal policies after such a resounding election.
"Sen. Reid shouldn't be entitled to bind the country next year when we get a new Congress so I think that would be smart for a whole lot of reasons," Sessions said in a conversation with reporters, according to The Hill. Sessions thinks this would give Republicans the best shot possible at blocking funding for implementation of President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty.
"He argues a short-term funding bill, rather than an omnibus spending bill that would run through September 2015, would better position Republicans to block Obama [on immigration]," The Hill's Rebecca Shabad wrote.
Sessions had just finished delivering a lengthy speech about the budget to the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. Sessions, who is currently the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, will chair that committee in the next Congress with its GOP majority.
In the speech, Sessions called for economic populism — a direction he has been pushing the Republican Party in for a long time.
"The social and economic center of American life is not Washington, or Wall Street, or Martha’s Vineyard. The social and economic center of American life is, and must be, among the everyday working people," Sessions said in the speech. "The time has come for a humble and honest populism — not the cheap demagoguery of political operatives, but a sincere devotion to the legitimate needs and desires of the American people. A billionaire activist has just one vote — a vote no greater than that of the truck driver or the plumber."
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Incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions says it'd be smart for congressional Republicans to oppose any long-term omnibus spending bill in the lame duck session of Congress that begins this week. Sessions says that's because voters nationwide removed Democrats from power, so outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shouldn't get to "bind" the nation's fiscal policies after such a resounding election.
"Sen. Reid shouldn't be entitled to bind the country next year when we get a new Congress so I think that would be smart for a whole lot of reasons," Sessions said in a conversation with reporters, according to The Hill. Sessions thinks this would give Republicans the best shot possible at blocking funding for implementation of President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty.
"He argues a short-term funding bill, rather than an omnibus spending bill that would run through September 2015, would better position Republicans to block Obama [on immigration]," The Hill's Rebecca Shabad wrote.
Sessions had just finished delivering a lengthy speech about the budget to the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. Sessions, who is currently the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, will chair that committee in the next Congress with its GOP majority.
In the speech, Sessions called for economic populism — a direction he has been pushing the Republican Party in for a long time.
"The social and economic center of American life is not Washington, or Wall Street, or Martha’s Vineyard. The social and economic center of American life is, and must be, among the everyday working people," Sessions said in the speech. "The time has come for a humble and honest populism — not the cheap demagoguery of political operatives, but a sincere devotion to the legitimate needs and desires of the American people. A billionaire activist has just one vote — a vote no greater than that of the truck driver or the plumber."