Oversight
Fact-Based Budgeting: Sessions Presents Research on Deficit Reduction To Senate Colleagues
WASHINGTON-----U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, wrote to his colleagues in the Senate today, on both sides of the aisle, to share a white paper produced by his Budget Committee staff that thoroughly reviewed and analyzed a large body of empirical research over how other nations have successfully, or unsuccessfully, confronted their deficits and debt. The white paper conclusively demonstrates that nations who have relied on spending cuts, rather than … Continue Reading
05.16.11
Sessions Reacts to Sobering Reports on Social Security and Medicare, Inability of Senate Dems to Present Budget Plan
WASHINGTON-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, made the following statement today after the Social Security and Medicare Trustees issued their annual reports on the financial status of the two programs, which show the projected insolvency date of Social Security has moved up to 2036 from 2037 and the insolvency date for Medicare has leaped from 2024 from 2029 in 2010's report: "Today's news that Social Security and Medicare will become insolvent even s… Continue Reading
12.13.10
Issue 5a&b: Government-sponsored Enterprises
09.29.10
Issue 4: NASA Funding Uncertainty
06.09.10
Issue 3: Oil Spill Tax
05.26.10
Issue 2a&b: 2011 Budget Resolution?
05.12.10
Issue 1a&b: Reconciliation
11.03.09
Issue 8: Corrected Highway Edition and 2009 Deficit
10.27.09
Issue 7a&b: Expanded Highway Edition
06.25.09
Issue 6a&b: Financial Intervention Summary
06.19.09
Issue 5: CBO & Health Reform
05.20.09
Issue 4: Second Supplemental
05.05.09
Issue 3: The Recession's Impact on SS & Medicare Finances
04.23.09
Issue 2: Deficit Neutral Reserve Funds
03.17.09
Issue 1a&b: President’s Discretionary & Transp. Budget
09.09.08
Issue 8: Recurring Bad Dream Of Highway Bill Turning Into Annual Nightmare
06.23.08
Issue 7: The Blue Dog Coalition
05.05.08
Issue 6: Deeming Resolutions
04.16.08
Issue 5: Pay-Go
04.03.08
