EMM News Explorer: Jeff Sessions

[ said]: The president needs to tell the American people what his plan is to get us out of this fiscal mess, and I think it will continue to be a major irresponsibility not to propose changes to the major entitlement programs,

latimes 11-FEB-12

[ said]: We’re heading towards the most predictable crisis in our history,

news 28-JAN-12

[-warned]: They’ve made a calculation that they’ll lay the responsibilities on us to be the [budget] naysayers, the worriers and hand-wringers, and they’ll put on the bright robes of hope and progress,

news 28-JAN-12

[-said]: In this, the final year of his term, one would think he would be ready and eager to lay out his detailed plan for our nation's financial future,

usaToday 23-JAN-12

[ said]: The President's runaway borrowing threatens the foundation of our economy and the financial future of every hardworking American,

ibtimes 13-JAN-12

[ said]: The president's runaway borrowing threatens the foundation of our economy and the financial future of every hardworking American,

ChinaPost 13-JAN-12

[ said]: One again, we find ourselves racing towards an 11th hour, panic-driven vote with no time to debate, review or amend an enormous spending bill,

economictimes 19-DEC-11

[ said]: Well, then you need to work this out with the Department of Defen se, don't you?

kuwaittimes 18-DEC-11

[ said]: Well, then you need to work this out with the Department of Defense, don't you?

msnbc 18-DEC-11

[ said]: The speeches he has been giving lately are clever political documents,

IHT 08-DEC-11

[ said]: The president talks about fairness,

usaToday 07-DEC-11

[-said]: The middle class must pay for the president's failed policies twice—first, they have to pay the bill for profligate federal spending, and then they must pay the price for its economic consequences in the form of lost jobs and mounting debt,

cnn 06-DEC-11

[-also noted that]: A lot of the low-hanging spending fruit is going to be proposed by Republicans to pay for a scaled-down year-end solution, and they’ll be used up too — to fund new spending this year.

news 01-DEC-11

[-said]: It’ll take one half of the $1.2 trillion cuts that result from the failure of the committee — around $600 billion,

news 01-DEC-11

[-said]: We may not be able to continue them at the rate they are or may not be able to continue them at all,

reuters 22-NOV-11

[ said]: I think a lot of people were hoping this would solve their problems and they could have a good Thanksgiving and a good Christmas,

upi 22-NOV-11

[-told]: We don't have the money to continue to borrow ... to fund these programs,

reuters 22-NOV-11

[ said]: I think what Congress should do is fulfill its responsibility, to publicly, openly debate these serious issues, the most incredible issue of our time,

voanews 21-NOV-11

[-said]: We're working to stop these politically driven lawsuits by cutting off the ability for the Obama administration to use taxpayers' money to pay for them.

usaToday 20-NOV-11

[-said]: More and more, we’re hearing that coming out of this recession is going to be a long, tough, slow slog,

news 19-NOV-11

[-said]: But what we’ve seen so far indicates that secret deals, while they remain secret, are promoted to be far better than they are when you begin to see what’s really in them. The devil will always be in the details,

news 19-NOV-11

[-said]: It’s less than a week until the deadline, and no language has been made public, and the American people should be able to make their voice heard before the committee votes. Because the truth is, once that vote happens, there’ll be no opportunity to change their product,

news 19-NOV-11

[-said]: The pattern around here is, that once a tax increase is passed, it’s there,

news 19-NOV-11

[-warned]: These committees have not followed through on that in the past,

news 19-NOV-11

[expressed:]: conflict of interest

msnbc 18-NOV-11

[ said]: We need real cuts, not minuscule cuts and certainly not increases,

news 18-NOV-11

[-said]: Congress has taken a great risk in turning over to a committee of 12 this responsibility,

ABCnews 17-NOV-11

[-said]: I am deeply disturbed by these developments and believe that the Justice Department should have provided these documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee during Justice Kagan’s confirmation hearing,

news 16-NOV-11

[-asked]: whenever a conversation came up about health care freeform legislation

ABCnews 16-NOV-11

[ said]: Dams sometimes break,

wsj 05-NOV-11

[ said]: If Democratic members of the committee think that Republicans just cannot resist calls or demands for a big tax increase because of the sense of unacceptable cuts, I think they would be wrong in that,

IHT 04-NOV-11

[-said]: Even more egregious is that the administration has refused to take any action against states and localities that affirmatively, proactively and intentionally impede the immigration enforcement in the United States,

news 03-NOV-11

[-said]: Cook County has decided that it gets to decide who gets deported from the country and when, and acting in this way directly undermines federal law enforcement,

news 03-NOV-11

[-said]: If we are going to talk about who is, and who is not, above the law, I suggest that my good friend — and we have worked together on a number of things, some of them criminal justice issues — the senator from Illinois, needs to clean up his own backyard rather than casting unfounded criticisms on states that are taking up a valuable effort to see that our immigration laws actually are enforced, to help end the lawlessness that has caused so much disruption in our country and upset the American people,

news 03-NOV-11

[-pointed out that]: It’ll be a victory for the world? Yes it would be.

ABCnews 20-OCT-11

[-said]: We’ve got to reduce our debt. The debt is a detriment, a blanket over the entire economy, and the more we dig that hole deeper the harder it is to get out of it.

ABCnews 20-OCT-11

[-said]: I am very dubious about the idea of more debt,

ABCnews 20-OCT-11

[ said]: No program in our government has surged out of control more dramatically than food stamps,

ABCnews 20-OCT-11

[-added]: Those decisions, if anything, I think they could have moved quicker, and less — it would have been more successful sooner,

ABCnews 20-OCT-11

[ said]: You live by the sword, you die by the sword, and he’s been one of the more violent people we’ve seen,

ABCnews 20-OCT-11

[ said]: Trade has helped us export our values of a free democratic society,

IHT 04-OCT-11

[replied:]: I think the message is this country can not allow the loss of a single job because of the unfairness of our trading partners.

news 30-SEP-11

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finanznachrichten 20-SEP-11

[-said]: When you remove the accounting tricks and Washington gimmicks from the president’s plan you’re left with only half of the $3 trillion in deficit reduction the White House promised,

news 20-SEP-11

[ said]: To advance the president’s healthcare agenda, it appears a deliberate effort was made by administrative officials to hide CLASS’s true cost from lawmakers and the public,

news 15-SEP-11

[-wrote]: When we received a copy of the legislation yesterday, we were expecting the Office of Management and Budget — which enjoys a five hundred person staff — to provide a precise and detailed estimate of the fiscal impact of the president’s proposal,

news 13-SEP-11

[-concluded]: When the president submitted his budget in February you declared: ‘our budget will get us, over the next several years, to the point where we can look the American people in the eye and say we’re not adding to the debt anymore.’ In reality, the budget would have increased our debt by $13 trillion. Rhetoric alone will be insufficient during this time of crisis. We need numbers. And they should be provided at once,

news 13-SEP-11

[-said]: I'm more dubious today than I was,

latimes 11-SEP-11

[ said]: Every penny of new spending - ‘investments’ - will be paid for with borrowed money,

washtimes 09-AUG-11

[ said]: Every penny of new spending ‘investments’ will be paid for with borrowed money,

washtimes 09-AUG-11

[-said]: The debt already, according to expert testimony, is pulling down growth and costing us jobs,

usaToday 07-AUG-11

[-said]: This falls far short of the idea that a dollar in cuts should accompany every dollar increase in the debt limit,

upi 28-JUL-11

[-said]: Far from the $2.7 trillion in cuts claimed, the true spending cuts in this proposal are closer to $1 trillion over 10 years ... while asking for a nearly $3 trillion increase in the debt limit,

upi 28-JUL-11

[ said]: It would be irresponsible for us to try to rush through such a complex package without time for meaningful review,

cnn 21-JUL-11

[-wrote]: International cooperation on law enforcement matters is vitally important,

cnn 18-JUL-11

[-said]: Face the Nation,

CBSnews 10-JUL-11

[ said]: That's a great position, I would support that,

CBSnews 10-JUL-11

[-said]: Absolutely that is is not correct,

CBSnews 10-JUL-11

[-responded]: That's not accurate, Bill,

CBSnews 10-JUL-11

[ said]: It’s not a pleasant place to be in, no doubt,

news 09-JUL-11

[ said]: It’s the debt, stupid,

news 09-JUL-11

[-told]: We need to go beyond the fact that debt is a threat to our children and grandchildren,

news 09-JUL-11

[-told]: So you ask to be the majority party; you ask to be the majority leader,

news 09-JUL-11

[-told]: You can only conclude that this has been their strategy,

news 09-JUL-11

[ said]: No real work is scheduled in the Senate this week on the budget, nor is any on the debt ceiling,

usaToday 07-JUL-11

[ said]: I'm not too sympathetic to all these jets myself, so I'd be willing to consider that,

latimes 30-JUN-11

[-said]: Before the Memorial Day recess, I presented to the majority leader a letter, signed by 46 Republican Senators, stating that we should not recess but remain in session to work on a budget plan,

latimes 29-JUN-11

[-said]: Until we work on a budget, until we work on the debt limit until we work on the people’s business we have no right to adjourn this body,

latimes 29-JUN-11

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finanznachrichten 28-JUN-11

[ said]: It seems to me to be a pretty easy one,

IHT 15-JUN-11

[-said]: The president of the organization continued explaining, that for many people in Puerto Rico, these men were fighters for freedom and justice,

CBSnews 07-JUN-11

[ said]: That's part of the problem. Some are protected groups and get special protection under this law,

CBSnews 07-JUN-11

[-said]: Instead of presenting an honest plan to confront our spiraling spending and debt, the majority leader made a mockery of the budget process, crafting a careful plan to prevent any budget from moving forward in the Senate. The entire execution of this plan was designed for political gain and in disregard of the national interest,

upi 27-MAY-11

[ said]: This nominee, I believe, represents an extraordinary circumstance,

IHT 20-MAY-11

[-said]: It seems Senate Democrats are desperately trying to avoid having to present a budget to the American people,

upi 20-MAY-11

[ said]: Senate Democrats are desperately trying to avoid having to present a budget to the American people,

latimes 20-MAY-11

[ said]: First, Senate Democrats offered the excuse that they were waiting for the ‘Gang of Six.’ Now we are told they are waiting on the Biden talks. But there is no reason to believe the Biden talks will be more successful than the Gang of Six,

news 20-MAY-11

[-said]: A budget is a vision, a plan for this nation’s future, and the American people have a right to know what that vision is,

news 20-MAY-11

[ said]: I think they are paralyzed,

wsj 20-MAY-11

[-asked]: Isn’t it a fact that if you presumptively to try an individual who is a terrorist planning or plotting or attempting an attack on the United States that if you presumptively are going to move them into civilian court, they are entitled to Miranda warnings within a few minutes of arrest, they are entitled to an appointment of a lawyer, they are entitled to be brought publicly before a civilian magistrate, entitled to pre-trial discovery, entitled to a speedy trial?

news 05-MAY-11

[-said]: My question to you fundamentally is every law enforcement officer involved out there, every military person involved out there needs to know what the policy is,

news 05-MAY-11

[-said]: Thoseâ€¦are the kind of things that could put us on the right course,

news 11-APR-11

[-added]: So we're going to look at this and we'll discuss it, Chuck,

CBSnews 10-APR-11

[-told]: We've got to talk about the systemic problem that we have,

CBSnews 10-APR-11

[-said]: The president is going to have to reach out early if he wants to get an early solution,

CBSnews 10-APR-11

[-said]: I deny that, that it's aimed only at middle class people,

CBSnews 10-APR-11

[ said]: The president just can't waltz in and say we're going to have a debt crisis if you don't raise the debt limit,

latimes 10-APR-11

[ said]: I think eventually we'll raise that debt limit,

CBSnews 10-APR-11

[-told]: The president is going to have to meet with the Speaker in the House and make some concessions and I think eventually we'll raise that debt limit, but not without concessions,

cnn 10-APR-11

[said:]: The American people are saying, children, you've misbehaved; you've spent too much of our money. And I think, through their elected representatives, they will insist that we make some changes in how we operate the budget.

upi 10-APR-11

[ said]: If my Democratic colleagues would prefer not to shut the government down, then don’t do it,

csmonitor 08-APR-11

[-said]: This is more than a Republican-Democratic squabble. The fundamental question is, are we headed to a financial crisis if we don't get off the fiscal course we are on?,

reuters 04-APR-11

[-said]: This is more than a Republican, Democratic squabble. The fundamental question is, are we headed to a financial crisis if we don't get off the fiscal course we are on?,

reuters 03-APR-11

[-acknowledged that]: It shouldn't be that way.

cnn 03-APR-11

[-said]: If we fail to do something significant I think it would send the wrong message around the world,

reuters 17-MAR-11

[-said]: I felt like our briefing lacked clarity on matters I would have hoped we had better intelligence on. It does appear that we sometimes get as much good information from the television as you do from the briefers,

cnn 04-MAR-11

[-said]: I am deeply disappointed that the EADS team was not selected to build the next air refueling tanker for the Air Force,

defensenews 25-FEB-11

[told:]: Early Show

CBSnews 15-FEB-11

[-told]: Senator Conrad, chairman of the budget committee that I work with, I think he's open to some improvement in our situation, so maybe we can,

CBSnews 15-FEB-11

[-said]: it will be a national tragedy,

upi 14-FEB-11

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