Lamar Alexander: “This may be the single most powerful reform of all--raising the rates of literacy so all students have a chance to…”

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

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.

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

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