Lamar Alexander

...when the guy hires Natasha Bedingfield to serenade her. Sunday talk-show roundup: "Fox News Sunday" (Fox at 9 a.m.) hosts Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Kit Bond (R-Mo.) and Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), and former National Institutes of...

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...agenda. "It's the same turkey you didn't like in August, and it's not going to taste any better on Thanksgiving," Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said of the bill, which has been wending its way through the Senate for months. Cost isn't...

In this article: Harry Reid, Tom Harkin, Medicare, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Congressional Budget Office, GOP, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama

...bureaucracy and run up the federal debt, and would hardly make health care more affordable. "We don't need a 2,000-page bill," Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the Republican conference chairman, said. "We need to take it step by step in the...

In this article: Harry Reid, Christopher Dodd, Washington, Connecticut, Nevada, Nebraska, Tax, Cholesterol, and Congressional Budget Office

...Snowe, also GOP members of the Gang of 14, voted against filibustering Hamilton, as did non-Gang members Orrin Hatch (Utah), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), John Cornyn (Tex.) Judd Gregg (N.H.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska),...

In this article: Lindsey Graham, GOP, Sonia Sotomayor, John McCain, George W. Bush, South Carolina, On the merits, and Supreme Court

...the matter of Republicans' past denunciations of filibusters, which Democrats had well archived. Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), for example, vowed in 2005 that he "would never filibuster any president's judicial nominee, period." He...

In this article: Jeff Sessions, George W. Bush, Lindsey Graham, Sam Brownback, Mitch McConnell, Allegation, and Trademark

...district and appellate courts and 19 nominees pending for those open seats. Republican senators voting to limit debate were: Lugar; Lamar Alexander of Tennessee; Saxby Chambliss of Georgia; Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine; John...

In this article: George W. Bush, Supreme Court, Jeff Sessions, and Richard Lugar

...have at least one viable option in the event that efficiency and renewables cannot provide all needed energy." Which brings us to Lamar Alexander, the Republican senator from Tennessee. "I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to...

In this article: Climate change, Tennessee, Coal, Waste, Carbon, Esquire, and Babcock & Wilcox

...nuclear power in 20 years and increasing funding for research into low carbon sources of energy. Sponsored by Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander and Virginia Democrat Jim Webb, the bill would provide $100 billion in loan guarantees for...

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But when Congress passed Medicaid in 1965, not all states initially signed up. Arizona didn't join the program until the 1980s. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., raised that point on the Senate floor recently, noting that it's not realistic...

In this article: Harry Reid, Utah, Medicaid, Mike Rounds, and Washington