Oh My Gov!

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tn.) on Tuesday announced that the U.S. House of Representatives passed his Senate legislation which includes an immediate two-year ban to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from restricting fishing below dams on the ... “Both chambers of the United States Congress have now told the Corps to immediately abandon its unreasonable efforts to restrict fishing and work with state agencies on a sensible policy to address safety concerns, instead of wasting taxpayer dollars and ...and more »

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today (May 21) announced that the U.S. House of ... The Corps has proceeded with its fishing restrictions despite the Senate's unanimous support for an amendment to the budget resolution in March that would allow Congress to prohibit the Corps' plans, as well as repeated requests for compromise from Alexander, numerous other elected officials and the state agencies that enforce boater safety requirements. Alexander has said the Corps should look for better ways to keep ...and more »

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced Senate passage last week of a proposal he included in the Water Resources Development Act that would prohibit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from implementing its proposed fishing restrictions below ... The Corps did so despite the Senate's unanimous support for an amendment to the budget resolution that would allow Congress to prohibit the Corps' plans, as well as repeated requests for compromise from Alexander, numerous other elected officials and the ...and more »

Lamar Alexander, the ranking GOP member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said last week he would oppose two of President Barack Obama's nominations to the National Labor Relations Board. ... “This is a part of a disturbing pattern of end-runs around Congress, whether it is with more czars than the Romanovs had; or executive orders that stretch the limits of executive authority; or using waiver authority to create, in effect, a national school board; or the Secretary of Health raising ...and more »

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander appeared on the Fox News' show “On the Record” last week to explain that the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s offers parallels to reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urged private companies to donate money toward implementing the Affordable Care Act. The Tennessee senator said that in both cases, the White House turned to the private sector to fund an initiative that Congress had refused to back. Host Greta Van Susteren took pains not to quibble ...

But unlike many of those Republicans, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., once worked for the disgraced president he took pleasure in linking with Obama. As a young lawyer in 1969, the future Tennessee governor worked for Bryce Harlow, Nixon's ...and more »

Sen. Lamar Alexander has been flexing his campaign muscles for months now, raising more than $1 million in the first quarter and marshaling support from prominent Republicans across Tennessee. But a leading Libertarian magazine is suggesting a new challenger may step into the ring to rival the former Tennessee governor, who is seeking his third Senate term after being elected in 2003. According ... Ron Ramsey to debate the merits of an online sales tax bill currently working its way through Congress. The bill ...

Sen. Lamar Alexander has been flexing his campaign muscles for months now, raising more than $1 million in the first quarter and marshaling support from prominent Republicans across Tennessee. But a leading Libertarian magazine is suggesting a new challenger may step into the ring to rival the former Tennessee governor, who is seeking his third Senate term after being elected in 2003. According ... Ron Ramsey to debate the merits of an online sales tax bill currently working its way through Congress. The bill ...and more »

“If she is raising money from private entities and coordinating with those entities to do something that Congress has refused to do, the Constitution doesn't allow that and federal law makes it a criminal violation,” Senator Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.) ...and more »

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tn.) announced that the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed his legislation that would immediately ban the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from implementing fishing restrictions for two years, the second time in as many days senators ... The Corps did so despite the Senate's unanimous support for an amendment to the budget resolution in March that would allow Congress to prohibit the Corps' plans, as well as repeated requests for compromise from Senator Alexander, numerous other ...and more »

Senate Ranking Members Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee ... Article I of the Constitution gives Congress alone the power of the purse. This means a federal agency is dependent on Congress for its ...and more »

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Thursday said he would oppose the nominations of Sharon Block and Richard Griffin to the National Labor Relations Board because “they ... Senator Alexander said: “This is a part of a disturbing pattern of end-runs around Congress, whether it is with more czars than the Romanovs had; or executive orders that stretch the limits of executive authority; or using waiver authority to create, in effect, ...and more »

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tn.), the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Thursday voted to oppose moving the nomination of Thomas Perez out of committee and to the Senate floor. Senator Alexander said: “I will oppose voting Mr. Perez out of the .... The president knew when he appointed Mr. Perez that Congress was investigating his involvement into brokering the quid pro quo deal in St. Paul, Minnesota. One other thing, in terms of whether there has been delay, ...and more »

Legislation described by Sen. Lamar Alexander as the most "steady path" in years for completing the Chickamauga Lock project was passed in the upper chamber of Congress Wednesday, leaving its fate to the House of Representatives. Senators passed the ...