President Obama, in his push to pass the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), said it would keep China from controlling the region – encouraging the Senate to pass the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) last month, which allows him to fast-track negotiations and finalize the TPP.
Now Obama is saying China could join the agreement, according to Politico.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said to Congress, “The American people don’t trust you” on Obamatrade deal.
The PATRIOT Act filibuster that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) led on Wednesday evening has proven one big thing: That his colleague from Kentucky, the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, agrees with his predecessor that there shouldn’t be open process or debate when the Senate considers major pieces of legislation.
With the Senate poised to vote to end debate on Obama’s fast-track trade legislation, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is continuing his assault on the effort. Wednesday, Sessions took on arguments for the trade deal with a series of what he office says
“It is time to begin a vigorous analysis of our conduct of trade,” Sen. Jeff Sessions says. “Do our policies and TPP concede too much to our mercantilist competitor allies?”
On Monday’s broadcast of Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) discussed the push for granting President Barack Obama fast-track trade authority and in particular the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. In that appearance, Sessions told Dobbs
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is firing back at The Wall Street Journal for a second time this month. On this occasion, the Alabamian is responding to a WSJ editorial accusing him of “scare mongering” the fast-track trade deal before Congress and hurting the Republican cause.
During a recent National Journal LIVE event, venture capitalist Lars Dalgaard, who is closely affiliated with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbying group FWD.us, suggested that the reason hundreds of American STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and information technology (IT) workers at Southern
Secrets not revealed: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)—an opponent of the secretive Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track the Pacific Rim trade deal Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)—went inside the secret room inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning to read the TPP text. He wasn’t allowed to discuss the details of the pact, however.
Today’s economy isn’t creating enough jobs for those who are already here; in April more than one-third of Americans weren’t in the work force. So immigration, whether legal or illegal, is simply serving to hold down wages.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has joined the chorus of Republican presidential candidates and members of Congress opposed to granting President Barack Obama’s request for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) which would fast-track the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific Rim trade deal.
The Wall Street donor class is rapidly losing control over the Republican Party heading into the 2016 presidential primary process, all while Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) moves into a key kingmaker role on the trail with messaging while most candidates are searching for a sweet spot with conservative economic populism.
Only two Senate Republicans from the entire conference of 54 members have admitted they read the details of President Barack Obama’s secret Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal as of this time.
Sessions argued that Americans have been harmed by recent trade agreements, saying that the percentage of Americans with a job are at its lowest points since the 1970s, wages have declined since 2000 and family income has declined $3,000 since 2009.
“America is a country, not a spreadsheet. A country puts the needs of its own citizens first,” Sen. Jeff Sessions writes to the Wall Street Journal.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is sounding the alarm to his colleagues Senate-wide, warning them and the American public with a “critical alert” published Sunday evening that voting for the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) deal that would set up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal with Asian countries is fraught with problems and concerns.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce purports to be a Republican-leaning organization, but it actually ranked Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid better than Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in its new scorecard for 2014 votes.
The Department of Homeland Security has declined to investigate Southern California Edison on allegations that it is replacing American employees with foreign workers on H-1B visas.
Sen. Jeff Sessions has been among the most vocal critics of the Obama administration’s immigration policies. During a hearing involving DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, Sessions offered a laundry list of frustrations with the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker isn’t backing down from protecting American workers from the effects of out of control illegal and legal immigration, even as seemingly everyone from the Institutional Left to the mainstream media to the GOP Washington establishment has come after him.
During a Thursday panel hearing on President Obama’s new program to fly Central Americans to the U.S. as refugees and aslyees, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) pressed administration officials on new guidance dealing with who qualifies for protection.
The Obama administration has created a new immigration path to the U.S. without Congressional approval, Sen. Jeff Sessions says. “I just want to say, Congress rejected this. So the President is executing it on his own,” Sessions said.
As the foreign-born population increased in the U.S. from 1970 to 2013, the lower 90 percent of income earners saw their wages decline, a new memo from the Congressional Research Service reveals.
A Senate panel will look into a new Obama administration program to fly the Central American children of lawfully present parents— including amnestied illegal immigrants — to the United States.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has clearly awakened the Washington establishment beast.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate, pledged to protect American workers from the economic effects, not only of illegal immigration but also of a massive increase in legal immigration, during an interview Monday morning.
Disgruntled, largely fast food, workers — spurred by labor organizations such as the Service Employees International Union — staged a rally this week calling for a $15-an-hour minimum wage. They insist the current economy is unfair to low-wage workers. But the real problem is immigration, both legal and illegal.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has joined Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in calling for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to abandon his pre-election promise to fight President Obama’s executive amnesty by holding a vote to confirm U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch as Attorney General.
The New York Times editorial board is becoming more unhinged with every passing day. Maybe it’s Republican electoral success, maybe it’s the sight of one failed liberal policy after another, but something is driving the Times around the bend.
Several Republican senators—including many who just won re-election and won’t face voters for six more years—voted for more big government and nearly $150 billion to be added to the national debt on Tuesday night. The vote came on the so-called “Doc Fix” which provides taxpayer cash to Medicare provider doctors.
While most of the political world is distracted following presidential campaign announcements on both sides of the political aisle, the GOP establishment in the U.S. Senate is working to increase America’s national debt significantly with a bill this week that doles out more taxpayer cash for doctors treating Medicare patients.
Unless Congress moves to limit current legal immigration rates, the U.S. will add at least 10 million more legal immigrants over the next decade — more than the combined populations of seven major cities, according to GOP staffers on the Senate’s Immigration subcommittee.
SESSIONS: It is time for an honest discussion of immigration.
A bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Sen. Dick Durbin (R-IL) called on top Obama administration officials to launch an investigation into the alleged abuse of a visa program to lay off and replace American workers with cheaper foreign workers.
More than 400 people have applied to have their children living in Central America be brought to the United States as refugees or parolees through the Obama administration’s recent Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole Program and there is no limit on the number of immigrants who could be approved, Breitbart News has learned.
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) will reportedly cave to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty and will support U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch for Attorney General, several media outlets are reporting.
A group of Republican senators say they are aware of allegations of workplace retaliation against Homeland Security personnel who — in conflict with the administration’s immigration policies — are “faithfully discharging the duties of the offices in which they serve.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, slammed Intel, the technology company, for seeking to replace the American workers the company laid off last year with cheap foreign workers via the H-1B program.
After some setbacks over the past several weeks, top aides to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tell Breitbart News that he’s toughening up his immigration position as he learns more about the issue. “He’s for border security first, enforce the laws on the books, fix legal immigration system with national interest in mind and then deal with those here,” Walker spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said in an email. Kukowski’s comments to Breitbart News come after a trip Walker took on Friday to the border with Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. A lot depends on what the governor means by a: “legal immigration system with national interest in mind.” Still, this could be a step toward Walker remaking his image on immigration in the manner of Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
WASHINGTON, DC — Iran’s presence in Latin America and its growing influence in the region are causing consternation among senior lawmakers and top U.S. military officials.
