Alabama's U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions keeps vow to cut office budget (al.com) {whoopty do!}

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Published: Saturday, October 08, 2011, 9:00 AM
Updated: Saturday, October 08, 2011, 10:27 AM

By Mary Orndorff -- The Birmingham News The Birmingham News

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions in March was the only senator to vote against a 5 percent reduction to senators' office budgets, saying at the time that it was a meager and symbolic gesture and that he would voluntarily spend 15 percent less.

A new report from the financial clerk of the Senate, provided by Sessions' office, shows he was successful.

With the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, Sessions spent $2,585,865, which is 15 percent less than his $3,039,522 allotment.

Unspent operating funds are returned to the U.S. Treasury.

Sessions originally started the fiscal year with $3,205,942 based on last year's level, but extended debates meant that the 2011 budget was not settled until half way through the year. At that point, the Senate voted 98-1 to cut their own budgets by 5 percent and there was a subsequent 0.2 percent reduction. So Sessions in the end spent 19.5 percent less than originally budgeted.

Payroll is the bulk of the cost in running a Senate office, or more than $2.3 million in Sessions' case.
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Well, HAL le LU jah! Praise the Lord and pass the smelling salts ! Evil elf Jeff Sessions just saved us hard-pressed taxpayers a whopping half million (well, not quite)! Of course, cutting payroll probably meant somebody lost a job or two, but hey, whaddya want, perfection? Just think, if 3,076,923 Senators cut their budgets by the same amount, it would ***completely eliminate*** this year's deficit!!!

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1. I bet you it came out of staff that did constituent casework

The kind of stuff that people actually benefit from.

I'm sure the pissant staffers that help him write all of that bad legislation were totally unaffected.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. I'm sure the legislation is all outsourced to ALEC anyway.

If there were enough lobbyists on K Street, Congress wouldn't have to write ANY legislation! Maybe soon they can just download it from the Internet, like term papers!