Ranking Member's Press

WASHINGTON, May 11 — Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on President Trump’s drug pricing announcement: “The President’s plan is sweeping, comprehensive and sophisticated. It appears to put patients and taxpayers first. I especially welcome the proposals to...

WASHINGTON, May 11 — Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on President Trump’s drug pricing announcement: “The President’s plan is sweeping, comprehensive and sophisticated. It appears to put patients and taxpayers first. I especially welcome the proposals to...

WASHINGTON, May 8, 2018 — United States Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) today introduced a resolution celebrating the 19th annual National Charter Schools Week, which runs from May 7 through May 11, 2018 and commends the students, parents, teachers, and leaders of our nation’s more than...

** Click here to watch Senator Alexander’s full remarks ** “Health insurance rates didn’t start increasing when President Trump took office, they’ve been increasing since Obamacare took effect five years ago.”   WASHINGTON, May 8 — Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Burr, Casey, Alexander, and Murray released a bipartisan discussion draft to reauthorize the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), making targeted improvements to the tools at our nation’s disposal to prepare for and respond to the threats that we face, whether naturally occurring like...

  “The challenge before us has often been described as needing a moonshot. Solving the opioid crisis might require the energy of a moonshot, but ultimately it is not something that can be solved by an agency in Washington, D.C. What the federal government can do is create an environment so that everyone can succeed in fighting the...

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2018 — Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), leaders of the Senate health committee, today introduced bipartisan legislation to address the “urgent opioid crisis” and said the committee will markup the legislation on Tuesday, April 24. The Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 (S....

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2018 — Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), leaders of the Senate health committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to address the “urgent opioid crisis” and said the committee will markup the legislation on Tuesday, April 24. The Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 (S. 2680) will...

WASHINGTON, April 12, 2018 — United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on his vote to confirm Patrick Pizzella to Serve as Deputy Secretary of Labor: “As we learned at his confirmation hearing last July—Patrick Pizzella is well-qualified to be Deputy Secretary of Labor....

“This committee has spent the last six months hearing from governors, state and local officials, doctors, families, and experts from the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration at our six...

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2018 — United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on his vote to confirm John Ring to serve as a member of the National Labor Relations Board: “The National Labor Relations Board is important to our nation’s workers and employers. John Ring’s varied...

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2018 — Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said that the “Equal Employment Opportunity Commission General Counsel is important to our nation’s workers.” The committee today held a hearing on Sharon Fast Gustafson to serve as General Counsel of the Equal Employment...

WASHINGTON, April 9, 2018 — United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said the Senate this week is set to confirm two important labor nominees—John Ring to serve as a member of the National Labor Relations Board and Patrick Pizzella to serve as Deputy Secretary of Labor: “America’s workers will...

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2018 — The leaders of the Senate health committee today released a discussion draft of bipartisan legislation to address the opioid crisis. The leaders also announced that a committee hearing on the draft legislation will take place on Wednesday, April 11th. The Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 will improve the ability...

NASHVILLE, March 26, 2018 — Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released two discussion drafts of legislation to improve the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ability to address the opioid crisis. “The Senate health committee has held six bipartisan hearings so far this Congress...

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2018—Democrats today blocked legislation that its Republican sponsors said would lower health insurance premiums by up to 40 percent for self-employed business people, plumbers, farmers, and songwriters who buy individual insurance without a government subsidy.   “They are going to have a hard time explaining...

Click here to watch Senator Alexander’s floor speech. “Today Democrats are voting in the Omnibus appropriations bill to apply the Hyde language to more than 100 other federal health programs while saying they can’t apply Hyde to health insurance.” – Lamar Alexander  WASHINGTON, March 22,...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2018 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said the Fiscal Year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations bill includes “$3.6 billion to help fight the opioids crisis – an increase of $2.55 billion or 244 percent – a major boost to those on the...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2018 — Senate health Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement after the president announced Dr. Robert Redfield will serve as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry...

WASHINGTON, March 20 — Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) made the following statement today on the proposal released yesterday by Senators Alexander and Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Congressmen Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Ryan Costello (R-Pa.) to lower health insurance premiums in the individual market: “It is...