Posted on 12/17/2014 2:16:11 PM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Wednesday afternoon conceded to Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) after a race to become the next chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
Sessions, currently the panel’s ranking member, said he reached an agreement with his “good friend” Enzi.
“We have talked and I am deferring to his seniority so that he can lead the Budget Committee as its Chairman beginning in 2015,” Sessions said in a statement.
“Mike graciously deferred to me two years ago after he timed out on HELP as Ranking Member, and it has been my enormous privilege to serve as the panel’s Ranking Member these last four years, as well as to serve as the Judiciary Ranking Member for the two years before that,” Sessions added.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the self-proclaimed socialist, will be the new ranking member. He is a vocal advocate for increased spending on social programs and says the budget of the Pentagon should be dramatically slashed.
The Budget gavel was the last open seat remaining in the 114th Congress.
Sessions was slated to become chairman until Enzi decided to jump into the race. Enzi only has more seniority on the committee because of lots they both drew when they entered the Senate in 1997, giving him a technical advantage in the race. Both men joined the Budget Committee in 2003.
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“With Corker and Graham on the committee they may as well make Reid the chairman. Those two concern me the most. We know they do DEMs deeds.”
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I know. The ‘RATS will lose two from the Committee and Republicans will have two added. I’ll be very interested in seeing who Leadership puts in those slots. If reinforcements for Sessions, OK. But if the RINO faction is strengthened, things may not go well for our country and its finances.
Don't you have to have brains to check your patriotism?
No. They both were re-elected this year.
Liz Cheney was as big a lying RINO as Enzi is. They are both industrial sized elite and establishment RINOs.
Okay, thanks.
Dollars to donuts it will be someone like you turning us Conservatives in for those hoped-for headlines.
If it hasn't already.
The fruits are self-evident. You, like most - choose to ignore them in favor of the fatal case of Normalcy Bias you are infected with.
It must keep you pretty busy projecting all your own inadequacies onto other people.
I’m not the one who votes for liberal Statist Oligarchs simply because of the letter after their name thinking they are going to save us from Marxist/Fascists.
What you claim to be ‘paranoia’, a growing number of Conservatives are seeing as ‘fact’.
Does your parole officer know you’re on the Interwebs again?
I’m sure you will let him know.
” Sessions should not be quiet— whatsoever.”
Correct!
Cornyn is ranking member on immigration subcommittee on judiciary. Conservatives still rejected his BS amendments after Heritage Action attacked his Cornyn Con.
The thing is, I dont want Kelly Ayotte or Hoevene going into the 2016 senate primary saying they voted for the Jeff Sessions Budget (that Obama vetoes).
I think some RINOs may have worked with Democrats to block Sessions’ budget.
On the other hand the RINO budget wont get much support from Rubio, Rand or Cruz on the committee.
Talking about the great Mike Enzi budget wont dupe conservatives.
Grassley is pretty good on immigration. Steve King needs to threaten a primary challenge for any BS that comes out of the judiciary. Steve King can probably work out a way to keep his Iowa 4th Congressional District House nomination assuming he loses to Grassley.
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