Ranking Member's Press

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 16 – Senate health committee chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on the reauthorization of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act: “It is a top priority of the Senate health committee to reauthorize the legislation that provides health care and support...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 16 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today called for a delay until January 1, 2017, of making final rules for stage three of the federal government’s program to require doctors and hospitals to create electronic health records systems. He said that stage three...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 15 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today made the following statement on the nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to be the next commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: “Dr. Califf has impressive credentials. The committee will move promptly to consider his...

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 14 – Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and retirement security subcommittee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today called on the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) to take immediate action to prevent fraud and abuse in its occupational disability program. In 2008, a New York...

NLRB’s new “joint employer” standard “would make big businesses bigger and the middle class smaller by discouraging companies from franchising and subcontracting work”   Washington, D.C., September 9 — Senior Republican lawmakers today introduced legislation to roll back the National Labor Relations...

* * *  “Tennessee has been working hard to fight this fast-growing drug problem, but we are losing more than a thousand Tennesseans a year to drug overdose." –Lamar Alexander    KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 4 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said Tennessee will get a “big...

TULLAHOMA, Tenn., August 27, 2015 – Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today hosted a roundtable at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tenn., with area college presidents, students, student affairs and financial aid advisors, and high school guidance counselors to discuss his plan to simplify the FAFSA, or...

MARYVILLE, Tenn., August 27th – Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on the National Labor Relations Board’s decision which retroactively revises the standard for determining joint employer status: “Today’s ruling seems intended to destroy a small business...

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 17th – Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on the National Labor Relations Board’s decision to dismiss a regional ruling which would have allowed college athletes to unionize: “The National Labor Relations Board has made the right...

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 5 – Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said Senate Democrats’ proposals to create new mandates on American employers were “designed to make it harder to hire and harder to find work.” “With more than 10 percent of American workers either unemployed or...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 – U.S. Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on the “Student Protection and Success Act,” introduced today by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) to give colleges and universities a stronger role in sharing the risk of lending to...

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 5 – U.S. Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said federal aid policies should encourage students to make progress in college and complete on time, and higher education policies should help colleges and universities help their students finish their degree or...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31 – Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on the administration’s plan to make some state and federal prisoners eligible for Pell grants: “This may be a worthwhile idea for some prisoners, but the administration absolutely does not...

WASHINGTON, July 30 – House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Senate Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and House Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-Va.) today met to discuss proceeding with a conference committee to...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29 – Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said the committee’s objective, in its work to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, is to ensure that any federal law or regulation will help the nation’s 6,000 colleges and universities create a campus environment that...

Washington, D.C.—Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the senior Republican in the United States Senate as well as a member and former chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Employee Rights Act in the United States Senate today, alongside the sponsor of the House companion...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26 – Following today’s vote on an amendment offered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to repeal Obamacare, Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), a cosponsor of the amendment, said: “Passing Obamacare was an historic mistake—just last month, tens of thousands...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24 – Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today led a group of 10 Republican senators in urging the administration to give the public “a reasonable opportunity” to review and respond to its proposed rule to make drastic changes to existing overtime eligibility. Alexander said:...

“If I found myself suddenly at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center emergency room and the doctors there wanted to get my paperwork from the hospital and doctors I usually use —information blocking means that there is some obstacle getting in the way of my personal health information getting sent to them.”– Lamar...

“The American higher education system of today is like the American automobile industry of the 1970s. Like the Japanese auto manufacturers that ultimately brought the American auto industry to its knees for a time, there is an emerging market of new or upstart providers of affordable higher education.” – Lamar...