Ranking Member's Press

WASHINGTON, September 26, 2018 — The Senate and House of Representatives today reached consensus on what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) calls “landmark” opioids legislation that is the product of bipartisan bills that passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 396-14 and the Senate by a vote of 99-1. The...

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 25, 2018 — Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said students would benefit from the law fixing No Child Left Behind because “states are back in the driver’s seat for decisions on how to help their students.” Alexander said, “Candace Hines, a...

“What the federal government should not do is pass a law trying to solve all this. Conservatives do not  like it when judges try to write laws and conservatives should not like it when legislators and agencies try to rewrite the constitution.” —Lamar Alexander WASHINGTON, D.C., September 18, 2018 – Senate...

*Click here for VIDEO of the Senator’s remarks.*  “We are already working to combine the Senate and House-passed bills into an even stronger bill to fight our nation’s worst public health crisis. There is a bipartisan sense of urgency to send the bill to the President quickly.” — Sen. Lamar Alexander, Senate...

WASHINGTON, September 13, 2018—Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a new proposed rule on the “joint employer” standard: “The NLRB’s proposed rule is good news for the men and women operating...

*Click here for VIDEO of the senator’s remarks.* “The appropriations bill Congress passed in March of this year included $4.7 billion to fight the opioid crisis, of which $1 billion was for grants to states. The fiscal year 2019 appropriations bill, which the Senate passed just last month, includes $3.7 billion to help combat...

WASHINGTON, September 6, 2018 — The Senate agreed today to vote next week on the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018—a bipartisan package of over 70 proposals recommended to the full Senate by five committees: Health, Finance, Judiciary, Commerce and Banking. Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said: “This...

WASHINGTON, DC – House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) sent a letter to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, August 24, 2018 CONTACTS: Daniel Keylin (Tillis) | (202) 224-6342 Taylor Haulsee (Alexander) | (202) 224-8816 Nicole Tieman (Grassley) | (202) 224-6522 Megan Taylor (Heller) | (202) 224-6244 Matt Wolking (Cassidy) | (202) 224-5824 Karina Petersen (Murkowski) | (202) 224-9301 WASHINGTON, D.C. –...

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2018 – United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said the Senate passed a bill that provides the fourth straight year of record funding in a regular appropriations bill for biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health, $3.7 billion to help fight the opioid epidemic, and raises the...

Alexander to NIH Director: “The reason Congress has devoted so much funding to biomedical research is captured in testimony you, Dr. Collins, made in April 2016, when you offered ten ‘bold predictions’ of what we might be able to achieve in the next ten years if we continued to invest in research.” WASHINGTON, D.C., August...

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 15, 2018 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said legislation signed into law by President Trump yesterday will help farmers in Tennessee keep their animals healthy. “A farmer in Tennessee knows the drug he has given to his calf is safe for the same reason we know that the...

WASHINGTON, August 13, 2018 – United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement after President Trump signed into law a defense bill the Republican Congress passed that supports pay raises for troops at Ft. Campbell and nuclear weapons and national security programs at the Y-12 National Security...

WASHINGTON, August 1 — Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s final rule to expand the availability of short-term, limited-duration health insurance: “Millions of Americans who are between jobs and who pay for their own insurance will...

“A farmer in Tennessee knows the drug he has given to his calf is safe for the same reason we know that the medicines patients take are safe—the Food and Drug Administration has approved it.”  WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2018 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said legislation passed...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2018 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said the federal government is at fault for some of the administrative burden that the nation’s doctors and hospitals face—which means “more time spent on paperwork, less time actually treating patients, and an increase to...

“The hope is that with a modernized approach to apprenticeships, industries that weren’t around when Paul Revere was training to be a silversmith or even when Elvis was learning to be an electrician, would be able to start apprenticeship programs.” WASHINGTON, July 26, 2018 — Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar...

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2018 — Senate Democrats today blocked a common-sense bill to help restaurants with more than 20 locations comply with a federal rule that they provide calorie counts for Americans. “If I’m a 21-year-old manager at the Chick-fil-A in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I would be pretty hesitant to sign a...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 25, 2018 – Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education (CTE) Act: “At a time when our economy is booming, companies everywhere are in the market for skilled workers. Over...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 25, 2018 — Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education released a new regulation on borrower defense to repayment: “Secretary DeVos is right to propose new regulations that set important safeguards and...