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Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, demanded Tuesday that the White House provide information that Press Secretary Jay Carney promised last week, about how it plans to pay for President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill. (more)

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions and Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn are pushing to strip technical language — that would act as a bailout for a large law firm and a pharmaceutical manufacturer — out of the patent reform bill currently pending in the Senate. (more)

The latest knock on President Barack Obama in the debt ceiling debate is that he has been reluctant to play a leadership role and try to craft the best deal possible.  (more)

It has been 800 days since the Senate has passed a budget. And Democrats on the Budget Committee have yet to publicly release their proposal for the next fiscal year, missing their statutory deadline by months. (more)

The top Republicans on the Senate Finance and Budget Committees sent a letter to President Obama on Friday, calling on the president to release any proposals discussed during the debt limit negotiations. (more)

While lawmakers continue to call for a budget deal that addresses the country’s growing deficit, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama is taking it one step further by calling for that deal to be negotiated in public. (more)

Sen. Jeff Sessions, Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Rep. Paul Ryan, chair of the House Budget Committee Wisconsin, sent a letter to President Barack Obama Tuesday calling on him to submit a plan that addresses the financial insolvency of Medicare. (more)

Experts say there are two paths to financial ruin for the U.S.: default on its debt, which could happen if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, or second, and more fundamentally, failure to address staggering deficits that are slated to overwhelm the economy in coming decades. (more)

Days before a likely markup of Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad’s budget blueprint, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee is unloading on the North Dakota chairman, blasting his plan to release the budget only minutes before it is marked up in committee. (more)

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions pressed Attorney General Eric Holder on whether presuming terrorists captured by the United States would be tried in civilian courts could hinder America’s intelligence gathering efforts. (more)

Following a preemptive strike by Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee warning Democratic Chairman Kent Conrad against trying to quickly pass his resolution through the panel in a kind of budget blitzkrieg, speculation is growing that Conrad and the so-called “gang of six” might try to skip right over the committee. (more)

Top Budget Committee Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions and his colleagues on the panel are telling Democratic Chairman Kent Conrad not to ram his budget down their throats. (more)

A top-ranking Republican senator on spending issues is calling on President Obama to submit an entirely new budget to Congress following news that the president plans a speech outlining changes to entitlement spending that are driving the government’s huge deficits now and into coming decades. (more)

The Senate Budget Committee, Tuesday, voted to recommend Obama’s nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the full Senate. The 11-10 vote was along party lines, with Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont absent and Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio abstaining. (more)

Republicans on the Hill are taking President Obama’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as a sign the White House is not serious about cutting spending. (more)

President Obama’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget  (OMB) tried, but failed to defend the proposed budget for fiscal year 2012 in a Senate Budget Committee hearing Thursday afternoon. (more)

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions took a sharp tone on Monday, criticizing what he called “fake cuts” from Democrats during a floor speech. (more)

Sen. Jeff Sessions struck a defiant tone Monday toward President Obama in advance of the State of the Union address, saying he does not think the president is serious about deficit reduction and that the GOP should fight him the same way that Newt Gingrich fought Bill Clinton in the mid-90′s. (more)

The past is not always a prologue to the future. But looking at some of the big winners and losers of 2010 does provide some strong hints of a positive 2011. (more)

BANGOR, Maine — Guess who’s coming to dinner? (more)