In an interview on FOX News today, Sen. Sessions said that the breakdown of the Biden debt talks should bring secret, closed-door negotiations to a close and commence a more open, public process. He also called on Democrats to reveal the tax plan they had been pushing behind closed doors: "if they're so proud of their plan, let's see what kind of taxes they were proposing."
Sessions also called on President Obama to finally show the leadership that he has thus far failed to demonstrate. (The president's original budget, which he apparently abandoned in favor of a later speech on deficit reduction, was voted down 0-97. And the Director of the Congressional Budget Office recently said that the president's deficit speech lacked any sort of detail that would be required from a formal plan.)
Sessions also called on President Obama to finally show the leadership that he has thus far failed to demonstrate. (The president's original budget, which he apparently abandoned in favor of a later speech on deficit reduction, was voted down 0-97. And the Director of the Congressional Budget Office recently said that the president's deficit speech lacked any sort of detail that would be required from a formal plan.)
Sessions: Time For Secret Debt Talks To See Light of Day
Sen. Sessions spoke on the Senate floor this evening to reiterate his call for secret, closed-door negotiations on the debt limit to be made public and to move to an open process before the American people. Earlier today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senate Minority Whip Jon Jyl announced that they were suspending their participation in the deficit reduction talks led by Vice President Biden because of Democrat demands for tax hikes.
Sessions also urged President Obama to heed the warnings from economists and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that failing to cut spending, or an insistence on raising taxes, will further harm the economy: "Raising taxes to pay for excess spending is a refusal to recognize that there are limits to how much we can spend and how much we can tax."
Sessions also urged President Obama to heed the warnings from economists and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that failing to cut spending, or an insistence on raising taxes, will further harm the economy: "Raising taxes to pay for excess spending is a refusal to recognize that there are limits to how much we can spend and how much we can tax."
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