Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-02-06-pt2-PgS832_t3

If the press can be trusted--and the White House is the first to tell us they can't--but if the press can be trusted, in a Washington Post article of January 31, 2017, we see a very clear working relationship that extends beyond the would-be Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the new President Donald Trump but includes a former key staffer for Senator Sessions, Steve Miller, and a man named Steve Bannon, who is with Breitbart News and is now a political inspiration to the Trump White House. It appears that they have a very close working relationship among them. That in and of itself is not troubling, except when you look at the issues they have worked on closely together--the issue of immigration, the Executive orders, of which the Post said Senator Sessions was the ``intellectual godfather.'' That is a clear example pointed out by this article, and that is one of the reasons it was raised by Senator Feinstein. I understand what Senator Graham has to say: that Senator Sessions has been nothing more than a Senator loyal to his home State of Alabama in his politics and in his views on issues. I do acknowledge that and can tell you that, over 20 years, I have heard Senator Sessions's speeches repeatedly, and he does take those positions.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
RICHARD DURBIN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
IL
Gender
Date
2017-02-06
Speech ID
CREC-2017-02-06-pt2-PgS832_t3
Paragraph
#0
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