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On 18 November 2016, the Presidential transition team announced via a press release that [[President-elect Trump]] had picked Sessions as his designee for [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]].<ref>''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38027519 "Trump election: Jeff Sessions picked for top law job"]''</ref>
 
On 18 November 2016, the Presidential transition team announced via a press release that [[President-elect Trump]] had picked Sessions as his designee for [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]].<ref>''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38027519 "Trump election: Jeff Sessions picked for top law job"]''</ref>
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==Cheney Loophole==
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A January 2017 article entitled "How Jeff Sessions Profited from Introducing a Fracking Exemption for Drinking Water Rules" suggested Sessions and his family profited from introducing the "[[Cheney Loophole]]" to exempt the [[fracking]] industry from the [[Safe Drinking Water Act]].<ref>https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/10/jeff-sessions-fracking-drinking-water-rules-cashed-in</ref>
 
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Revision as of 13:54, 24 February 2017

Person.png Jeff Sessions   WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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BornJefferson Beauregard Sessions III
24 December 1946
Selma, Alabama, U.S.
Alma materHuntingdon College, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
ReligionUnited Methodist
Children3
SpouseMary Blackshear
Member ofHouse and Senate Taiwan Caucus
PartyRepublican

Jefferson "Jeff" Sessions (born 24 December 1946) is the Republican Party's US Senator from Alabama.[1] In 2009, The Guardian said he was "known to be one of the most consistently conservative legislators on Capitol Hill."[2]

On 18 November 2016, the Presidential transition team announced via a press release that President-elect Trump had picked Sessions as his designee for Attorney General.[3]

Cheney Loophole

Full article: Cheney Loophole

A January 2017 article entitled "How Jeff Sessions Profited from Introducing a Fracking Exemption for Drinking Water Rules" suggested Sessions and his family profited from introducing the "Cheney Loophole" to exempt the fracking industry from the Safe Drinking Water Act.[4]

 

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Germany
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