Senate Report Card: Jeff Sessions R-AL
Senator Sessions currently serves on the Armed Services, Judiciary, Budget and Energy and Natural Resources Committees. He also serves on the International Narcotics Control Caucus. Sessions is the only member of the Senator to have unsuccessfully face the Judiciary Committee as a nominee and to have served on it.
Sessions is considered one of the most conservative members of the Senate. He is a staunch conservative with regards to his stances on foreign affairs, taxes and social policy. He opposes abortion and is strongly opposed to illegal immigration. He has taken one of the strongest stands against any form of citizenship for illegal immigrants. He was one of the most vocal critics of President Bush's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, leading the charge to deny the proposal. Sessions was a supporter of the nuclear option, to stop filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees. Sessions was a harsh critic of the compromise developed by the "Gang of 14." He voted against placing any restrictions on the treatment of terrorist suspects, including alleged torture tactics. He has voted against embryonic stem cell research.
Senator Sessions supports the use of executive priviledge to stonewall the investigation into the Bush Administration and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez with regards to the firings of 8 United States District Attorney's for allegedly politcal purposes. Sessions spoke on the Senate floor saying, "This is an overreach legally. It is an overreach insofar as the traditional comity that should exist between coequal branches of Government. Executive privilege is not a principle that should be lightly dismissed. It is a very real, legitimate principle that our Government has. What would we have next? Would we want to be subpoenaing the law clerks for Justice Stevens and Justice Ginsburg and Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court to see what those staffers told the judges before they rendered their ruling? What about Senators and our staffs? How about that?"
Jeff Sessions hotly opposed gay rights and same-sex marriage. He was a supporter of the Federal Marriage Amendment, saying, "It is not a little matter. It is a very big matter. It is a matter the American people have a right to be asked about. It is a matter the American people have a right to be engaged in. It is an institution that no one can dispute is central to American culture. Regarding the culture of any country in the world, the status of family and marriage is critical to that culture."
Senator Jeff Sessions voted for the Iraq War Resolution. He is opposed to any attempts at redeployments or withdrawals. He is opposed to any timetables or timelines and benchmarks to be set. He defended his position, saying, "I understand the difficulties we are facing in Iraq. I understand the courage our soldiers are displaying. I understand the risks they are subjected to right now, and we want to see the situation improve. All of us do. But we voted for this policy. The surge has just started." He is a strong defender of President Bush's war policies in Iraq.
Senator Jeff Sessions faces reelection in Alabama in 2008.
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I do agree with his statement that family is critical to a culture. I strongly disagree, though, with his narrow definition of family, which probably does not include at least a quarter of the people within out own society. So many "leaders" conveniently forget the equality concept when they are soliciting votes and attempting to retain office.