Lamar Alexander: “I want to join in the welcome of Secretary Salazar, who is well known and well loved here in our--in the Senate.”

We don’t believe in canceling part of our history. We wanted our children to understand that the American Republic has never been a perfect union but that its greatness is that it has always struggled to reach noble goals.

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

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