Ranking Member's Press

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23 – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate education committee, today released three staff white papers and asked for feedback on three issues related to reauthorization of the Higher Education Act: accreditation, risk sharing, and the collection of consumer information. Alexander...

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2015 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate health committee, today released the following statement on the 5th anniversary of Obamacare being signed into law: “Five years ago this week, President Obama signed into law a piece of legislation Republicans said would be an historic mistake....

*** “The NLRB’s decision to allow micro-unions divides workplaces and makes it harder and more expensive for employers to manage their workplace and do business.” – Lamar Alexander  WASHINGTON, March 19, 2015 –U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate labor committee, today cosponsored...

WASHINGTON, D.C.,  March 19 – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today praised House passage of a joint resolution to stop the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from implementing its “ambush election” rule. The resolution was introduced under...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 18 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today urged Anthem, Inc., to notify all 78.8 million Americans—including nearly 800,000 Tennesseans and 450,000 Washingtonians—whose sensitive personal information may have been exposed in a cyber...

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2015 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate health committee, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and Representative Phil Roe (R-TN) today introduced the Self-Insurance Protection Act (SIPA) in the U.S. Senate and the U.S House of Representatives. This bill would ensure that employers can continue providing...

WASHINGTON, DC – A key, bipartisan group of four senators today requested a 30-day extension of the public comment period for the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s (DGAC) Scientific Report. Chairmen Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., joined Ranking Members Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Patty Murray, D-Wash.,...

“…The administration rushed the process with its penalties—and at the same time made the federal government the arbiter of IT quality.”  –Lamar Alexander   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17 – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said the government should enable and encourage physicians and...

*** “…The administration rushed the process with its penalties—and at the same time made the federal government the arbiter of IT quality.”  –Lamar Alexander WASHINGTON, D.C.,  March 17 – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said the government should enable and encourage physicians and...

In letter to OMB Director Donovan, senators warn of potential negative consequences for American workers if DOL “fiduciary” rule has not changed significantly from previous proposal  WASHINGTON, D.C., March 11 – Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) led a group of 8 Republicans on the Senate labor committee in a letter...

*** “Today discoveries supported by NIH often do not come to FDA’s door for six, eight, ten, or even twelve years.  And the average cost to get a single drug from the laboratory through the approval process to the medicine cabinet is, according to some estimates, about $1 billion. Other estimates say it’s double that or even...

WASHINGTON, March 9 – U.S. Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today released the following statement: “During the last several weeks we have been working together to build the base for legislation to fix the problems with No Child Left Behind. We are making significant...

WASHINGTON, March 5 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate labor committee, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, and Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, today called on National Labor Relations Board...

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2015 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) was presented Wednesday evening with the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University’s 2015 John M. Ashbrook Award for his work in championing American history and civics education. “In my first address as a U.S. Senator, I proposed that we create summer academies for...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 4 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate health committee, released the following statement on today’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the King v. Burwell case, which Alexander attended: “Hopefully the Supreme Court will rule that the law means what it says. If the court...

WASHINGTON, Mar. 4 – The Senate today passed a joint resolution offered by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) to stop the National Labor Relations Board from implementing its “ambush election” rule. The rule was finalized in December to shorten the...

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2015 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) was presented Wednesday evening with the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University’s 2015 John M. Ashbrook Award for his work in championing American history and civics education. “In my first address as a U.S. Senator, I proposed that we create summer academies for...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 3 – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) with Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) yesterday introduced legislation to provide legal certainty—and eliminate confusion...

"Such waste should be an embarrassment to all of us in the federal government. So if all of us created this mess, then it is up to all of us to fix it.” —Lamar Alexander WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate education committee, today said a report released by a...

WASHINGTON, D.C.,  Feb. 12 – Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today cosponsored legislation offered by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) that would enable employers to pay individual employees more based on their job performance, rather than seniority in a collective bargaining unit.  Alexander said, “This...