03.21.12

Sessions: A Senate Republican Majority Would Pass A Budget

“[The House] presented an honest plan to control wasteful Washington spending, restore Medicare to safety, and grow the middle class—not the government… The Senate’s Democrat majority [is going] three straight years without offering a budget… In so doing, Senate Democrats forfeited their claim on leadership. Should voters give Republicans the privilege of a majority in the Senate next year, we will work with our colleagues in the House to finally pass a congressional budget plan. It will be an honest budget, and it will change the debt course of America.”

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the FY 2013 House Republican budget:

“America’s per-person debt is worse than Greece, the president’s health law will spend $2.6 trillion during its first full ten years, and every child born today will owe more than $1.5 million in debt over the course of their lifetime. As the president’s own top officials have repeatedly warned: we are on a dangerously unsustainable path.

President Obama’s budget plan, as Treasury Secretary Geithner admitted for the second year in a row, keeps us on that unsustainable path. In fact, the president’s budget raises taxes by almost $2 trillion in order to pay for a $1.6 trillion spending increase—not to reduce the deficit.

The Republican House has charted a different direction. They presented an honest plan to control wasteful Washington spending, restore Medicare to safety, and grow the middle class—not the government. They also repeal the president’s health law, which is one of the greatest threats to America’s financial stability. They fulfilled the duty they were elected to perform.

By contrast, the Senate’s Democrat majority has set a new record: three straight years without offering a budget plan at a time when we’ve never needed a budget more. In so doing, Senate Democrats forfeited their claim on leadership. Should voters give Republicans the privilege of a majority in the Senate next year, we will work with our colleagues in the House to finally pass a congressional budget plan. It will be an honest budget, and it will change the debt course of America.”