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10-25-07
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Sessions was elected Alabama Attorney General in 1995, serving as the state’s chief legal officer until 1997, when he entered the United States Senate.

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Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

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Web: http://sessions.senate.gov/

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Washington Office:
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Washington, D.C. 20510-0104

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Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions has cosponsored the Senate version of the Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act of 2007 (S 1012).

The addition of Sessions brings the total number of US Senators in the 110th Congress supporting federal legislation regulating the rent to own industry to 20. See RTO Online's Complete Senate Contact List and Facebook.

Following a two-year stint as Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama (1975-1977), Sessions was nominated by President Reagan in 1981 and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the United States Attorney for Alabama’s Southern District, a position he held for 12 years. Sessions was elected Alabama Attorney General in 1995, serving as the state’s chief legal officer until 1997, when he entered the United States Senate.

The House version of Consumer Rental-Purchase Agreement Act of 2007 has 60 cosponsors, the latest being Zach Space (D-Ohio) earlier this month (see story). Senator Chuck Schumer's anti-industry bill introduced in May, the Rent-To-Own Reform Act of 2007, has no cosponsors.

There have been 19 bills introduced since 1993 that would regulate the rent to own industry at the federal level. None have passed both houses of Congress (See Rent to Own Legislation 1993 to present).

RTO Online Congressional Resources:
Complete House of Representatives Contact List and Facebook
Complete Senate Contact List and Facebook
Rent to Own Legislation 1993 to present

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