VIDEO: Sessions Offers Motion To Send Murray Budget Back To Committee With Instruction To Balance In 10 Years‏

March 21, 2013

For Immediate Release

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Sessions Offers Motion To Send Murray Budget Back To Committee With Instruction To Balance In 10 Years

“I would offer a motion to recommit this budget that’s on the floor today to the Committee with instructions that it be altered to produce a balanced budget. That’s what I think this nation needs. I think that is what the American people want, and that’s what we are determined to fight for…

Members need to understand the meaning of this vote—the question will be, do you favor a balanced budget? Is it important to you? … Have you said in your town hall meetings, and in your campaigns, and in your debates, ‘I believe in a balanced budget amendment’ or ‘I believe in a balanced budget?’”

NOTE: The text of the motion is as follows: “Mr. Sessions moves to commit S. Con. Res. 8 back to the Committee on the Budget with instructions to report back no later than March 22, 2013 with such changes as may be necessary to achieve unified budget balance by fiscal year 2023.” Because the motion includes no specific instructions or caveats, the majority would be able to use either tax increases or spending cuts—or any combination of both—to achieve balance.