Lamar Alexander: “I am interested primarily in whether they will serve as an impartial umpire, which is what they are called to be.”

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

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…

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

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