National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions told The New York Times on Monday that he thought the administration intended to “diminish employment and diminish stock prices” and “to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it.”

Van Hollen responded in a statement: “The latest remarks by NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions have no place in our current economic debate and reflect a party more preoccupied with offering bizarre conspiracy theories than offering credible solutions to get our economy back on track. Families coping with the loss of a job, their home or their health care need solutions from Washington, not more of the same broken politics embodied by Chairman Sessions and the Republican leadership in the House and talk show host Rush Limbaugh.”