A similar proposal was included in the discussion draft of the Lower Health Care Costs Act, released by Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray.

The Great American Outdoors Act is going to reduce the $12 billion maintenance shortfall in our parks by about half.

That doesn't sound like a very Republican argument to me. I mean, our position, my position, Republicans believe that states are in charge of elections. And Texas is a big state, but I don't know exactly why it has a right to tell four…

Senator Lamar Alexander... said today that he believes President Trump should congratulate Joe Biden as President-elect once the electoral college steps forward.

He told me that he had substantial reason to believe the governor was about to release one or more persons from the state prisons who were the targets of the United States investigation into payoffs to release people from our prisons. He…

I made a plea for bipartisan cooperation as my closing speech in the U.S. Senate today.

These are not very happy days for Tennessee. This is not a happy day for me.

I think you've got to take office early in order to stop what's going on.

The transition to Biden should begin.

If there is any chance whatsoever that Joe Biden will be the next president, and it looks like he has a very good chance, the Trump administration should provide the Biden team with all the transition materials, resources, and meetings…

You're saying that, based on the preliminary indications from your serological testing and studies, that as many as 90 percent of Americans are still -- still haven't had the virus yet?

Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, I think, had the best punditry of the weekend today. He said no one should be surprised that a Senate Republican majority is going to vote on a Republican president's nominee.

Which is why I think it's so important that we get over this pro-Trump, anti-Trump mask debate.

All roads back to work, back to school lead through testing, tracking, isolation, treatment and vaccines. This requires wide-spread testing.

It was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent and to withhold United States aid to encourage that investigation. When elected officials inappropriately interfere with such…

I work with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses but there's no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the United States'…

If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist. It would create the weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used…

From my vantage point, the only reason it did not succeed was that Democrats would not vote for the Hyde Amendment.

Good morning. Senator Murray is on her way, but she's asked that I go ahead and begin.

I think the answer is none.

I do not think the administration knew what it was doing when it put the tariff on aluminum, and I do not think the investigation made any sense.

But what is the 8 or 80?

That is farfetched and an abuse of authority.

Because it takes a lot of electricity to produce aluminum and the cost of electricity is much too high in the United States to make that practical.