Senate Proceeding on Sep 16th, 2009 :: 6:02:30 to 6:10:15
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Jeff Sessions: quorum call: mr. sessions: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: i would ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sessns: mr. president, i'm concerned that we in this ngress attached to reality. i spent time in my state over the recess, and people talked to

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Speech By: Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: me repeatedly about their concern about excessive government spending. and i think it is a real national issue. we know that our national deficit, the total deficit is on track to double in five years and triple in ten. that's the public debt that this

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Jeff Sessions: country owes, and w have to pay interest on. to countries like china and individuals all ove we pay a lot of interest every year, and the interest is going to surge over the next ten years under this proposal. and i just feel like we're not connected. we're not hearing it. we think it's business as usual,

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Jeff Sessions: and it's not business as usual. states throughout our country, cities throughout our country are cutting expenditures, trimming budgets, trying to be more efficient, looking for ways toave money and be their budget. and a lot of states, most states have a billion-dollar budget amendment.

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Jeff Sessions: they h their -- have a billion-dollar budget amendment. they have to stay within their budget. balanced budget amendment, but it failed. and now we're proceeding on a stunningly reckless course of spending. and let's look. i've always tried to support agriculture.

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Jeff Sessions: it's a but i could not vote for the last ag bill that we had. it was a 14% increase in ag spending. you know the rule of seven. most people tkofplt if you increase sometng a 7% a year, it will double in ten

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Jeff Sessions: years. at 14% it will double in five years. the ag bill was on track to double, the entire agriculture bill of the united states in five that did not include the stimulus extra money that out of the stimulus bill which is significant. if you included that, it would

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Jeff Sessions: amount to a agriculture i just bring that up. this is a bill i car about. well, the transportation and h.u.d. bill that's before us today is worse. it has a 23% increase in spending, which is on top of a 13% increase in spending in the bill last year.

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Jeff Sessions: and that does not include stimulus package spending. at a 23% rate, spending on h.u.d. -- housing development and transportation would double in three to four years. now, if you include the stimulus package money, which we passed

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Jeff Sessions: in february, and is pouring out $800 billion and not near as much of it went to highways as you probably thought. it was supposed to be the road to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. you heard that? only out of $800 billion wento roads and highways. but if you still put that

6:05:53 to 6:06:13( Edit History Discussion )

Jeff Sessions: on top of this, it's 165% increase in spending from fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2010. and that is a stunning increase at a time we don't have the money. and the american people know it. that's one of the complaints about health care. it's all part and parcel of a

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Jeff Sessions: concern by t they're saying what i understand them to say guys lost your minds up there? are you no longer feel a sense of responsibility? you're going to double, triple the national debt in ten years? how can you and we have vote after vote

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Jeff Sessions: after vote, and they fail. we need to be containg spending. we hadn amendment that was offe shortfall in money. we got a problem. we've got a real problem.

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Jeff Sessions: people are using less gasoline, and the taxes f our highway primarily come from peopl paying tax per and if they use less gallons, we've got less money coming into the basic highway budget. i'd like to see that number lifted. how can we do it? senator vitter proposed

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Jeff Sessions: commonsense cal amendment. he said put up $18 billion out of the stimulus bill, most which was promised to be for roads anyway but hadn' spent. he said let's take that money and fix the shortfall in the transportation bill. i voted because they preferred to fix

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Jeff Sessions: the shortfall in the transportaon bill by borrowing more on top of stimulus bill. every penny of which is borrowed. we don't have the money. we have to borrow it. we pay interest on it. and somebody's got to pay that for the indefinite future, because the ten-year budget that

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Jeff Sessions: the president hasubmitted us has no hint that it will contain spending. in fact, the deficit's grow in the out years, which is why we have such a terrible problem. so, gosh, we earlier had today

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Jeff Sessions: that said let's freeze spending. let's show some restraint like our states are doing,ike our families are doing. no. flat spending. because, you see, transportation and these other programs th are in this bill, they're getting stimulus money on top

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Jeff Sessions: that, out of the $800 billion. so why do they need a baseline increase of 23%? the baseline next yea we'll be hearing, say, well, we're only going to do a 15% increase on the baseline and be proud of that or something. so ion't like the way we're doing this.

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Jeff Sessions: i don't think we're listening to the american people. and, it's not the right thing to do. i've got a few charts that i would just like to share that bear repetition, because i'm not making these are numbers by the congressional budget office.

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Jeff Sessions: they are basically nonpartisan group of fine folks that try to give us honest data on which we can make decisions. the chairman of it is selected by the congress, and of coue the congress is a democratic marity, and they were select the director. this

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Jeff Sessions: president this is the public debt of the united states of of it held by china and other countries aroundhe world, individuals around the world. they buy our "t" bills, we pay