Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions IIIis the junior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected in 1996, Sessions is a member of the Republican Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 December 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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I am disappointed that the Democratic leader Harry Reid has apparently urged his colleagues to vote no on this nomination. ... I think it may affect votes on the floor to make this a leadership issue.
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Chief Justice Rehnquist understood that liberty requires order and further that our Constitution always recognizes that fact,
delay excuse ready
That's just an excuse to delay. I'll be there. I live in Mobile. I will be ready to go forward,
case committing
he shouldn't be committing to case after case.
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I have been of the view that if we in Congress can't balance the budget, we shouldn't approve a pay raise.
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Let me tell you why I wouldn't vote for Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
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I think conservatives do not have confidence she has a well-formed judicial philosophy, and they are afraid she might drift and be a part of the activist group like Justice Souter has, ... She will need to articulate a vision of the Constitution and the role of a judge that is sound or she could be in trouble with the Republican senators.
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Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.
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He's a superb nominee. I can't imagine senators will find any circumstances in his background that would justify denying him a vote.
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I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.
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has the very natural qualities to make a superior judge.
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I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.
objective
You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.
committees longer work
Committees would have longer to work on them. We need to do a biennial budget.