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A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as United States Senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve in the administration of President Donald Trump. Sénateurs. Washington (CNN)Sen. Richard Burr, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN Monday that he will back the nomination of President Donald Trump's controversial pick to be the country's next intelligence chief. [114][115][116], On June 13, 2017, Sessions testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee after canceling testimonies before the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. O que é nominar: v.t.d. [128][129] Furthermore, on the same day, testimony given by Carter Page to the House intelligence committee contradicted Sessions' previous statements by stating that he had told Sessions about plans to visit Russia during the campaign. He opposed the bill due to cost concerns and indicated that Congress should instead focus on "reforms and solutions that improve the quality of service and the effectiveness that is delivered". Many lawmakers, including Republican senators, said Trump's remark was inappropriate, and a spokesperson for House Speaker Paul Ryan said the Justice Department "should always remain apolitical".[152]. "[232], On June 18, 2018, a group of more than 600 United Methodist Church clergy and laity announced that they were bringing church law charges against Sessions. [275], Sessions opposed President Barack Obama's health reform legislation; he voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009,[276] and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. This is clearly not the Republican Party I once knew, loved and proudly served. Time appears to have changed Burr's mind. All rights reserved. [243], In September 2016, in advance of a UN Security Council resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Sessions signed an AIPAC-sponsored letter urging President Barack Obama to veto "one-sided" resolutions against Israel. In 2002, Sessions won reelection by defeating Democratic state auditor Susan Parker. "[263], Sessions voted against the Matthew Shepard Act, which added acts of bias-motivated violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity to federal hate-crimes law,[264] commenting that it "has been said to cheapen the civil rights movement". Such settlement funding had been made available for the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Volkswagen emissions scandal. [258], Sessions was one of 25 senators to vote against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the bank bailout), arguing that it "undermines our heritage of law and order, and is an affront to the principle of separation of powers". sanctions. We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote! [55] He was on the short list to become Trump's running mate and was widely seen as a potential Cabinet secretary in a Trump administration. Sessions focused on Sotomayor's views on empathy as a quality for a judge, arguing that "empathy for one party is always prejudice against another". Today is National Voter Registration Day! The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate GOP's campaign arm, declined to comment Tuesday night on whether it would support Stewart now that he's won the party's nomination. [244], In 1996, Sessions promoted state legislation in Alabama that sought to punish a second drug trafficking conviction, including for dealing marijuana, with a mandatory minimum death sentence. Découvrez nos propositions et offrez un sourire à une des femmes les plus importantes de votre vie ! [85][86], On June 5, 2017, Sessions issued a memo preventing the Justice Department's future lawsuit settlements from including funding for third parties. The Koch brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity, as well as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Utah Sen. Mike Lee, invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the race in the closing weeks. [89] Sessions' recessions were criticized by the United States Commission on Civil Rights and prompted a lawsuit by the City Attorney of San Francisco. During her tenure, Kagan reinstated the practice of requiring military recruiters to coordinate their activities through a campus veterans organization, rather than the school's Office of Career Services. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Sessions to a judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. Sessions' legislation was accepted in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2005. [187] Sessions said "You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation toward the most serious charges that can be brought, because this is an unequivocally unacceptable and evil attack that cannot be accepted in America.