“I am grateful to my colleagues for this opportunity and I am looking forward to working with them to protect our natural resources and promote policies that serve the interests of Alabama’s workers and families. One of my promises is to ensure that nuclear power has a fair opportunity to play a significant part in meeting America’s growing need for cheap, reliable, and clean energy. During this time of persistently high unemployment, we need to be unleashing the nation's economic engine. American workers know their jobs—whether at a steel manufacturing facility, paper mill, automobile plant, cement plant, or any other sector in our economy—should be free of regulations, the cost of which exceed any possible budget. I will look forward to promoting a sound U.S. nuclear energy policy and to advancing important efforts like completion of the Bellefonte nuclear power plant in North Alabama. Beyond these issues, the full committee is expected to take up a number of public works issues in the 113^th Congress that are important to Alabama, including the condition of our nation’s ports, harbors, and navigable waterways and the federal highway program.”

 

BACKGROUND:

As a member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Sessions has taken an active role in defending American workers against unwarranted EPA regulations, promoting sound energy policy, and advancing smart conservation and the interests of Alabamians, such as: 

 

·        Sessions Introduces Pro-Worker Energy Bill

·        Sessions, Colleagues Push For Alabamians To Be On Key Federal Conservation Board

·        Sessions Applauds Passage of Energy Bill That Saves Jobs in Alabama

·        Sessions Challenges EPA on President’s Dubious Assertions About Global Temperatures

·        Sessions Leads Bipartisan Senate Effort to Stop Costly New EPA Regulation

·        Sessions Comments On Senate’s Confirmation Of Alabamian To Be On Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority

·        Sessions Leads Bipartisan Effort to Honor Wildlife Refuges

·        Sessions Helps Secure Passage of RESTORE Act  

·        Sessions Expresses Concerns with Obama’s Actions on Nuclear Power

·        Sessions Challenges President to Act to Reduce Gas Prices

 

In addition to the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Senator Sessions also serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and as the Ranking member of the Budget Committee.