Senator Jeff Sessions was the ranking Republican on the powerful Senate Budget Committee when the GOP was in the minority. Now that the GOP has taken back the Senate, largely as a result of the immigration issue for which Sessions is the most reliable spokesman, Sessions should become Chairman of the Budget Committee. But Mike Enzi of Wyoming is trying to grab the chairmanship:

Mike Enzi has nominally the same 100% rating on immigration that Sessions does, but when Liz Cheney tried to primary him, Washington Watcher wrote this:

Thinking about the Enzi-Cheney primary in Wyoming: Senator Mike Enzi is not an enemy of patriotic immigration reform, but he is hardly a champion. His recent A+ is based solely on votes against cloture and final passage of the Gang of Eight immigration bill. I’m glad he did this, but it does not make him a hero. Anyone who voted against the cloture and final passage of the bill and did not vote for any bad amendments or sponsor any other bad legislation will get an A+ from Numbers USA. Prior to Enzi’s votes against this latest amnesty, he had a B-. Enzi is not bad on immigration, and has consistently voted against every single amnesty that came to the Senate in the last decade. However, he has never done anything proactive. In fact the only bills on immigration he has co-sponsored were to increase H-2B visas and AgJOBS. He’s better than your average Senate Republican, but he has not showed any leadership on this issue. I would reserve the term “immigration patriot” for people like Jeff Sessions and David Vitter who consistently have stood up against amnesty and mass immigration.

James Antle has an analysis at The Week. After explaining the takeover attempt, he explains why it matters.