Chair's Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 23 – Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today made the following statement after the Department of Labor released the final version of their proposed “persuader” rule: “If you’re a small business owner and some of your employees just petitioned to form a union, there...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 23 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today made the following statement on the sixth anniversary of Obamacare being signed into law: “Six years ago, both Republicans and Democrats believed that our health care system was broken and needed to be fixed. At the White House...

WASHINGTON, March 23 – Republican committee leaders in the Senate and House today asked the administration for information about the 316 security breaches on HealthCare.gov catalogued in a new report released by the nonpartisan government watchdog, the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The Senate and House members sent a...

WASHINGTON, March 22 – Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today led a group of 10 Senate Republicans in asking for more time for Americans to weigh in on the administration’s new proposal to increase by 20 times the employment data it currently collects from each of the 61,000 private employers on their 63...

“If the president is going to going to go around saying we want to keep college costs down… how can you justify an overtime rule that might raise the cost of college by one thousand dollars per student?” WASHINGTON, March 17 — U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today asked U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez why the...

Washington, DC — The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Wednesday approved an amendment based on the bipartisan, bicameral Reducing Unused Medication Act that would allow prescriptions for opioid medications to be partially filled by pharmacists at the request of patients or doctors,...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17 – The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate health committee today introduced legislation to help the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “attract top talent during this exciting time in science.” The FDA and NIH Workforce...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17– Lawmakers in the Senate and House today introduced the Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act, legislation that will ensure the Department of Labor pursues a balanced and responsible approach to updating federal overtime rules. The sponsors of the legislation – members of the Senate Committee on...

Senate Republicans introduced a measure Wednesday which would require a federal agency to comply with the same employment data collection rule it plans to impose on private employers. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the main federal agency tasked with resolving workplace discrimination. It introduced a proposal Jan. 29 that...

“This legislation would give the EEOC a dose of its own medicine.” WASHINGTON, March 16 – The chairman of the Senate labor committee today introduced legislation to subject the Obama administration to its own proposal to increase by 20 times the employment data it currently collects from each of the 61,000 private employers...

WASHINGTON, March 16 – The Senate health committee today passed legislation to help address the country’s mental health crisis and help ensure Americans suffering from mental illness and substance use disorders receive the care they need. The committee also passed additional legislation to help tackle the opioid epidemic by...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 14 – Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today made the following statement after the Senate voted to approve the nomination of Dr. John King Jr. to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education: “We need an education secretary confirmed by and accountable to the United States Senate so...

WASHINGTON, March 10 – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said today the Senate’s passage of legislation to address heroin and prescription drug abuse is “an important step in addressing this fast-growing epidemic that is claiming the lives of more than 1,000 Tennesseans each year.” The legislation passed the Senate by...

“I think we can produce the most important bill of the Congress this year because our work on this bill will affect virtually every American – and I look forward to doing it promptly.” Senator Alexander also delivered remarks on #Innovation2016 this afternoon on the Senate floor. Click HERE for full video of those...

“Last year, No Child Left Behind was the law everyone wanted fixed – this year, biomedical innovation is the opportunity everyone wants to take….Virtually every American could be helped by what we do.” WASHINGTON, D.C., March 9 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said that...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 9 – Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) made the following statement after the Senate education committee voted to approve the nomination of Dr. John King Jr. to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education: “The new bipartisan law fixing No Child Left Behind represents a dramatic change in direction for...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 7 – A bipartisan group of Senate health committee members, including the Chairman and Ranking Member, today announced their plan to address the country’s mental health crisis and ensure Americans suffering from mental illness and substance abuse disorders receive the care they need. The bipartisan draft...

“This new law reverses the trend toward what had become, in effect, a national school board, and restores to those closest to children the responsibility for their well-being and academic success.” WASHINGTON, D.C., February 25 – The chairman of the Senate education committee today told the president’s nominee for...

I’m committed to supporting the president’s precision medicine initiative through our Senate health committee’s innovation agenda to ensure that Americans can take advantage of this remarkable time in science.” WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 25 – Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released...

WASHINGTON, February 24 – Below are prepared remarks from Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) for today’s hearing – Zika Virus: Addressing the Growing Public Health Threat: Earlier this month, Senator McConnell hosted a briefing on the Zika virus with Secretary Burwell. Two weeks ago, the Senate...