Immigration Critic Jeff Sessions Will Chair Senate Panel On Immigration

FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee member, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sessions told reporters Thursday, the president should take responsibilit... FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee member, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sessions told reporters Thursday, the president should take responsibility for the Secret Service, GSA and energy company Solyndra scandals and insist on a government culture in which taxpayer dollars are not wasted. He said, "I don't sense that this president has shown that kind of managerial leadership." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) MORE LESS
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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) announced on Thursday he will chair a Senate subcommittee that oversees immigration policy, a consolation prize for the chamber’s most outspoken immigration skeptic after he dropped his bid to chair the Budget Committee.

He immediately renamed the Judiciary panel “Immigration and the National Interest” — its original title was “Immigration, Refugees and Border Security.”

“My focus as Chairman of the Immigration subcommittee will be to advance the core interests of the nation and its people. On no issue have special interests had a tighter grip than on the issue of immigration,” Sessions said, vowing to give voice to the working families and American workers who have been hurt by “record immigration.”

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) will be deputy chairman, Sessions said.

The news was first reported by Politico.

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  1. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    Having Sessions hold that chair is rather like having David Duke as head of the NAACP.

  2. Sessions and Vitter. What a dynamic duo. The ‘Runt of the Litter’ and ‘The Shitter’…

  3. Yes, they put correct racist in charge…what else could be expected from the GOP?

  4. Avatar for docb docb says:

    Of course, the tea gops always put their flap-eared ignorance on full display! Issa the arson and thief comes to mind!

  5. Avatar for don don says:

    The look on his face tells me he’s saying, “Whu’d you say, boy? Thats just a scrawny, little old
    weasel”. “Look at me while ise talking to you, boy”.

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