Press Releases

WASHINGTON, March 5 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate labor committee, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, and Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, today called on National Labor Relations Board...

“We need to fight back against those who miss that Mad Men era,” said Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) on a press call Thursday to introduce the 21st Century Women’s Health Act, which Murray brought to the Senate today along with co-sponsors Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Murray emphasized how women’s...

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2015 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) was presented Wednesday evening with the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University’s 2015 John M. Ashbrook Award for his work in championing American history and civics education. “In my first address as a U.S. Senator, I proposed that we create summer academies for...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 4 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate health committee, released the following statement on today’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the King v. Burwell case, which Alexander attended: “Hopefully the Supreme Court will rule that the law means what it says. If the court...

WASHINGTON, Mar. 4 – The Senate today passed a joint resolution offered by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) to stop the National Labor Relations Board from implementing its “ambush election” rule. The rule was finalized in December to shorten the...

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2015 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) was presented Wednesday evening with the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University’s 2015 John M. Ashbrook Award for his work in championing American history and civics education. “In my first address as a U.S. Senator, I proposed that we create summer academies for...

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks on the Senator floor in response to the Republican attempt to defend corporate interests instead of standing up for workers who want to gain a seat at the bargaining table to improve their workplace....

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and 36 Democratic Senators wrote a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, encouraging her to further improve women’s access to health care under the Affordable Care...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 3 – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) with Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) yesterday introduced legislation to provide legal certainty—and eliminate confusion...

Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether the Obama administration used the IRS to deliver health insurance subsidies to Americans in violation of the law. Millions of Americans may lose these subsidies if the court finds that the administration acted illegally. If that occurs, Republicans have a plan to protect Americans...

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA) led a bicameral group of Democratic lawmakers in filing an amicus brief opposing the District Court ruling that would maintain the outdated exclusion of home care workers from basic worker protections like minimum wage and overtime. “Home...

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on House Republican leaders canceling today’s vote on their partisan Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization bill. “The move by Republican leaders to pull today's...

Now that Tennessee Promise guarantees every Tennessee high school graduate two years of tuition-free community college, the main obstacle standing between a Tennessee high school graduate and two years of free higher education is a ridiculously complex federal form. A solution, introduced by a bipartisan group of United States senators, would...

A key Republican said Wednesday the Senate GOP will fast-track two conservative priorities — a bill that shields states from Common Core or other national education standards and a state alternative to Obamacare exchanges, as they seek to test President Obama's bipartisanship. Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican and chairman of the...

Sen. Lamar Alexander is collaborating with the leader of Vanderbilt University in an effort to reshape federal regulations on thousands of colleges and universities across the country. Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos traveled to Washington, D.C., Tuesday to testify before the Senate education committee, which Alexander chairs. During his...

Murray: “When students are deciding where to attend, they should have the tools to find out if their college or university will give them a good return on their investment and hard work.” Murray calls for more work to ensure a safe learning environment on campus (Washington, D.C.) – Today, Senate Health, Education,...

"Such waste should be an embarrassment to all of us in the federal government. So if all of us created this mess, then it is up to all of us to fix it.” —Lamar Alexander WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate education committee, today said a report released by a...

College regulations may make the cost of obtaining an education more expensive for students, Republicans say.  “How many billions of dollars could we save if we reduced the administrative burden?” Senate Education Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) asked Tuesday during a hearing on education reform. During the hearing,...

The Senate will vote to reauthorize the Higher Education Act by the end of the year, Sen. Lamar Alexander told reporters today. “We’ll get it done this year,” Alexander said after a Senate HELP Committee hearing on federal regulations in higher education. “I see no reason why we can’t finish this in 2015. At least,...

A proposed 0.9 percent cut in payments to health insurers for Medicare Advantage plans will hurt seniors and the disabled, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander says. Medicare Advantage provides health benefits to more than 16 million elderly or disabled people. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the proposed cut Friday. In response,...