Lamar Alexander: “I am here today to strongly recommend and respectfully recommend to the committee that it approve the President's…”

So we have 7.2 million people working in the automotive industry whose jobs are affected.

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.

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…

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