“Jeff Sessions” on The Daily Caller

Thomas Jefferson is widely credited with coining an adage that makes fools of procrastinators: “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” But where budgets are concerned, Congress has failed to execute the third U.S. president’s advice for three years. (more)

The normally loquacious Senate Republican caucus is being uncharacteristically mum about whom they think presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney should pick to play Robin to his Batman. (more)

The cost of food stamps has increased in recent years as more people join the program, which will continue to expand through at least 2014, according to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released Thursday. (more)

Democratic senators have again refused to prepare a formal budget to guide spending in 2013, prompting the Senate’s GOP budget chief, Sen. Jeff Sessions, to slam the Democrats’ leadership as irresponsible. (more)

Senate Republican staffers continue to look though the 2010 health care reform law to see what’s in it, and their latest discovery is a massive $17 trillion funding gap. (more)

Senate Democratic leaders do not plan to propose a budget this year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Friday, saying that they had already done so with the debt-ceiling agreement. (more)

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, told The Daily Caller that the U.S. will “continue to see downgrades” if the federal government keeps spending at its current level. (more)

The budget projection for the next decade released by the Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday was pretty depressing, but not depressing enough, says Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions. (more)

Government workers earn more in combined wages and benefits than their counterparts in the private sector, according to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study released on Monday. (more)

Top Democrats have abdicated their leadership role and are ignoring the nation’s budget problems because they’re focused on their 2012 election campaigns, Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions told The Daily Caller. (more)

As Congress prepares to pass a final flurry of bills in the last weeks of the year, Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions is worried that lawmakers will falsely claim spending cuts by paying for actions with money that otherwise wouldn’t be spent.  (more)

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions warned against short-term solutions for cutting spending in the wake of the super committee’s failure to reach a deal, saying that in the long run, these would leave the United States saddled with the exact same problems. (more)

As the deficit reduction super committee remains gridlocked and predictions of failure abound, Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions warned Thursday that if the super committee does squeak out a last minute deal, people should be on guard for gimmicks that wouldn’t really cut spending. (more)

1.) Steered science — As we all know, scientists are mighty, infallible wizards whom we mere mortals may not question. Once “scientific” “consensus” has been reached in a certain area of sorcery — such as, say, global warming — you can just shut up about how your taxes are being spent if you know what’s good for you. (more)

The Daily Caller asked Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama a series of questions about President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill and the GOP presidential candidates. (more)

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions did not take kindly to Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin’s criticism of Alabama’s rigid enforcement of immigration laws during a speech promoting the DREAM Act, attacking Durbin from the Senate floor and contributing to a letter demanding that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano closes safe havens for illegal immigrants. (more)

Despite claims that an appropriations bill the Senate is expected to pass Tuesday will cut spending from last year by $1 billion, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican member of the Senate Budget Committee, contends that the bill will in fact increase spending by nine times that amount. (more)

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions has set his sights on a federal government program that he says has quadrupled its cost during the last decade. This year the federal government is projected to spend $80 billion on food stamps. Sessions says the program’s cost has doubled in the last three years and is set to increase another 14 percent this year. (more)

In the spirit of President Obama’s “Buffett Rule,” Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions floated his own rule on the Senate floor — the “Solyndra Rule.” (more)

President Barack Obama pushed for passage of his debt plan Monday morning, saying, “this is not class warfare, it’s math,” but Republican members of the Senate Budget Committee say the president’s arithmetic doesn’t add up. (more)