Subject: Nightly, 5.13
From: "Kasnetz, Joel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bauer, Nick" <[email-masked]>, "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>, "Graham, Caroline" <[email-masked]>, Veepstakes <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 15:35:32 -0700

Chris Christie

*         Chris Christie conditionally vetoed a home heating assistance bill

*         "John Doe" tried to block the unindicted Bridgegate conspirator names from being released, but was unsuccessful. It sounds like the new deadline for the prosecutor to release the list (if the Third Circuit doesn't take the appeal) is Tuesday at noon. I'll remember to buy some microwave popcorn this weekend for said occasion.

What I learned today about Sessions:

He thinks Hillary is the first step towards a terrible hellscape that sounds kinda like Blade Runner to me.

Jeff Sessions: "This November Will Give Americans A Clear Choice On ... Whether We Remain A Nation-State That Serves Its Own People, Or Whether We Slide Irrevocably Toward A Soulless Globalism That Treats Humans As Interchangeable Widgets In The World Market." "For the first time in a long time, this November will give Americans a clear choice on perhaps the most important issue facing our country and our civilization: whether we remain a nation-state that serves its own people, or whether we slide irrevocably toward a soulless globalism that treats humans as interchangeable widgets in the world market." [Jeff Sessions, USA Today, 5/12/16<http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/12/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-jeff-sessions-editorials-debates/84298310/>]

He doesn't like the Pope

Jeff Sessions, Opposing Pope Francis's Position On Illegal Immigration: "I Don't Think The Golden Rule Can Be Used To Justify Violating A Nation's Immigration Laws. I Don't Know That He Meant That, But I Don't Think That's True." "Pope Francis implored Congress to act to combat climate change and to embrace immigrants in his Thursday address to lawmakers... Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) took issue with the pope citing the Golden Rule - 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you' - in the context of having compassion for immigrants. 'I don't think the Golden Rule can be used to justify violating a nation's immigration laws,' Sessions said. 'I don't know that he meant that, but I don't think that's true.'" [Huffington Post, 9/24/15<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-congress-climate-change-immigration_us_56042de8e4b08820d91bf69d>]

He wants to cut S.S. and Medicare

Jeff Sessions: "Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, Certain Pell Grants Are What We Call Entitlement Programs." SESSIONS: "And so Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, certain Pell Grants are what we call entitlement programs, where you get that benefit whether the government has any money or not. And if the government doesn't have any money, it has to borrow money to pay these benefits. And that portion of the budget that includes interest is now pushing 60%." [WHNT-19 (AL), 4/25/14<http://whnt.com/2014/05/02/sen-jeff-sessions-on-the-budget-social-security-fair-trade/>]

*         Jeff Sessions: To Reverse Budget Gap, "We Need To Make Some Adjustments" To "Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, Certain Pell Grants." SESSIONS: "So Defense, Marshall [Flight Center], highways are less than 50%. A majority of the budget are in those programs [Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, Pell Grants] and they're growing at a pace that's unsustainable. And so we need to make some adjustments-smaller series of adjustments. They can put those programs on a sound basis. And everybody that's going home at night, working hard can sleep well, knowing that they're going to have these benefits in the future. I think we can do that. And we'll have to do that. There cannot be-we cannot have a failure." [WHNT-19 (AL), 4/25/14<http://whnt.com/2014/05/02/sen-jeff-sessions-on-the-budget-social-security-fair-trade/>]

He's a fan of show votes

JEFF SESSIONS MADE NUMEROUS SHOW VOTES TO REPEAL OBAMACARE, BECAUSE IT SHOWED THE REPEAL "COULD PASS NEXT TIME" WITH A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT

Jeff Sessions On Voting For Obamacare Repeal Bills That Would Not Become Law: "It Demonstrates That If You Have A President Prepared To Support Health Care Reform, It Could Pass Next Time." "Republican leaders also want to send an unmistakable message to voters: If you elect a GOP president next year and keep the them in charge of Congress, Obamacare will go. 'It demonstrates that if you have a president prepared to support health care reform, it could pass next time,' said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, a vocal critic of the Affordable Care Act who insisted this was not a show vote just because the President will veto the bill. [CNN, 12/4/15<http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/03/politics/gun-control-obamacare-planned-parenthood-senate/>]

He doesn't seem to interested in stopping Zika without more budget cuts.

Jeff Sessions On Budget Implications Of The U.S. Mobilizing To Fight The Zika Virus: "I Think This Is Something That Could Be Offset, And I Would Favor That." "Conservatives want to slash $30 billion from a budget deal the parties agreed to last fall, so they are reluctant to post billions more to tackle Zika, the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, Mich., and the prescription opioids and heroin epidemic. 'I think this is something that could be offset, and I would favor that,' Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, said Friday of the emerging Zika deal." [Washington Times, 4/22/16<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/22/heritage-action-make-sure-zika-virus-deal-paid-/>]