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 asked me to take office in order to prevent that.
Lamar Alexander explained the reason behind his early swearing-in to prevent the outgoing governor from releasing prisoners under investigation.
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The practical matter is we have a busy time ahead of us and even a partisan time ahead of us which isn't unusual.
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It is good to see a piece of legislation that had such broad bipartisan support.
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