Topic: Lamar Alexander
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Lamar Alexander, a member of Republican leadership, embraced on Tuesday a deficit-reduction plan by the bipartisan "Group of Six" senators aimed at averting a debt default."This is a serious, bipartisan proposal that will help stop Washington from spending ...
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The retiring chairman of the House of Representatives science committee says that his attempt to win bipartisan support for revisions to the 2007 America COMPETES Act has slowed its route through Congress. That would have been the politically smart thing to do," ...
The top Democrat in the US Senate said Wednesday Republicans had agreed to open debate on a sweeping finance reform bill after several days of political brinkmanship in Congress.Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said in a statement that "Republicans have finally agreed ...
President Barack Obama had no choice but to bypass Congress in ramming through several stalled political appointments, top advisers said Sunday -- a move Republicans said would only intensify toxic political warfare.Just days after a dramatic victory on health care reform which ...
Sen. Lamar Alexander, in this interview, refuses to repudiate any element of the tea party movement, including the John Birch Society. ) "I really don't know how to answer a question like that," Alexander says. We were about to launch into a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republicans clashed frequently on Thursday at a summit on his stalled healthcare overhaul, battling over the size and cost of the proposal and moving no closer to a compromise agreement."There are some fundamental differences between ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate Republican leader on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to begin anew in an effort to draft a bipartisan overhaul of healthcare.Speaking at the White House healthcare summit, Lamar Alexander said, "Let's start over," and urged the president ...
Only a few days ago, Sen. Lamar Alexander was complaining because the White House " completely cut out" the GOP on health care, and he urged President Obama to work with all the many willing Republicans in Washington on that issue.
Obama administration to consider local opposition when trying to find Sept. 11 trial site The Obama administration said Sunday it would consider local opposition when deciding where to hold Sept. 11 trials and pledged to seek swift justice for the professed mastermind ...
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Lamar Alexander tours Library Exhibit
Sen. Lamar Alexander tours his library exhibit "Come on Along ...2011-10-24
