I hope to hear four words from President Trump tonight at the State of the Union: lower health care costs. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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I hope to hear four words from President Trump tonight at the State of the Union: lower health care costs. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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I am glad to have President Trump’s support for the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan plan to end surprise billing in an effort to lower health care costs. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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I am glad to have President Trump’s support for the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan plan to end surprise billing in an effort to lower health care costs. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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WATCH this recap of the Senate health committee’s hearing with Dr. Tom Price. Chairman Alexander said “Dr. Price made an exceptional case for his confirmation today.” Alexander said he’s hopeful that Dr. Price will help our country come to a consensus in the area of “providing concrete practical alternatives to give Americans access to health care they can afford.” | Senator Lamar Alexander
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WATCH this recap of the Senate health committee’s hearing with Dr. Tom Price. Chairman Alexander said “Dr. Price made an exceptional case for his confirmation today.” Alexander said he’s hopeful that Dr. Price will help our country come to a consensus in the area of “providing concrete practical alternatives to give Americans access to health care they can afford.” | Senator Lamar Alexander
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VIDEO: Senator Alexander talks about the Senate health committee’s work to help the 18 million Americans and 350,000 Tennesseans in the individual market next year. The committee’s hearings began last week and continue tomorrow. “The whole focus was on Tennesseans and Americans who buy their insurance on the individual market – that’s songwriters, farmers, self-employed people who don’t get insurance from the government, or they don’t get it on the job, and they’re getting priced out of the mark
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VIDEO: Senator Alexander talks about the Senate health committee’s work to help the 18 million Americans and 350,000 Tennesseans in the individual market next year. The committee’s hearings began last week and continue tomorrow. “The whole focus was on Tennesseans and Americans who buy their insurance on the individual market – that’s songwriters, farmers, self-employed people who don’t get insurance from the government, or they don’t get it on the job, and they’re getting priced out of the mark
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WATCH: Last week, the Senate passed—by a vote of 94 to 1—the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) user fee agreements—bipartisan legislation to speed treatments and cures into patients’ medicine cabinets and doctors’ offices. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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WATCH: Last week, the Senate passed—by a vote of 94 to 1—the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) user fee agreements—bipartisan legislation to speed treatments and cures into patients’ medicine cabinets and doctors’ offices. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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There's one issue I hear a lot about from Tennesseans, and it is, “What are you going to do about the health care costs I pay for out of my own pocket?” Well, I’ve got an answer. Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate have announced a proposal of nearly three dozen specific bipartisan provisions that will reduce the cost of what Americans pay for health care. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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There's one issue I hear a lot about from Tennesseans, and it is, “What are you going to do about the health care costs I pay for out of my own pocket?” Well, I’ve got an answer. Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate have announced a proposal of nearly three dozen specific bipartisan provisions that will reduce the cost of what Americans pay for health care. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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The opioid crisis is ravaging our country. After seven bipartisan hearings, the Senate health committee this week unanimously passed the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 to take the next step in helping states fight the opioid crisis. You can read more about the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 here: https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=9DE9FB64-4FE0-4E42-9179-922AE6D36BF2 | Senator Lamar Alexander
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The opioid crisis is ravaging our country. After seven bipartisan hearings, the Senate health committee this week unanimously passed the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 to take the next step in helping states fight the opioid crisis. You can read more about the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 here: https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=9DE9FB64-4FE0-4E42-9179-922AE6D36BF2 | Senator Lamar Alexander
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Internet fraudsters who claim that vaccines aren’t safe are preying on the unfounded fears and daily struggles of parents, and they are creating a public health hazard that is entirely preventable. So here is what I want parents in Tennessee, in Washington, in Texas, everywhere in our country to know: Vaccines are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and meet the FDA’s gold standard of safety. There is nothing secret about any of this science. Countless studies show that vaccines a
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“We had an unpleasant reminder this week that there is a real Obamacare emergency in Tennessee,” Sen. Alexander said Friday. “Humana, the insurance company, pulled out of Tennessee, meaning that next year 70,000 Tennesseans will have to find new insurance. …In the Knoxville area next year, 2018, that means that there won’t be an option for you for insurance. If you have an Obamacare subsidy, it’ll be just like having a bus ticket in a town where no buses run.” Alexander said that Congress and th
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The United States Senate owes patients and their families a prompt, bipartisan reauthorization of the Food and Drug Administration user fee agreements to fund the FDA, which is the agency responsible for making sure the promise of the 21st Century Cures Act actually reaches America’s patients. If we do not move quickly to pass these agreements, in late July, the FDA will be forced (by law) to send layoff notices to more than 5,000 FDA employees to notify them that they may lose their jobs in 60
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I voted for the bipartisan bill that sends $4.6 billion to help with the humanitarian crisis on our Southern border, and I am glad Congress approved this bill and sent it to President Trump. This is a significant response to a major national problem. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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Today, at the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee hearing I spoke with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos about her plan to modernize the federal student loans program. If you can buy an airplane ticket on your smartphone and a book with one click on Amazon, a student should to be able to use his or her smartphone to find out how much scholarship and grant aid they might be eligible for or how much they have left to repay. The federal govern
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In farewell address, Lamar Alexander calls for Senate to come together, work better
Dec 2, 2020
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The U.S. Senate should quickly pass bipartisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which will generate trillions in economic support to help keep employees on payrolls and to relieve Americans' financial burden while containing the COVID-19. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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Congress is working with the Trump Administration to ensure states and communities have the assistance they need to help deal with the spread of the coronavirus. Each of us have our own responsibilities to work from home if we can, avoid large crowds, and wash our hands regularly. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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Last year, more Tennesseans died from opioid overdoses than were killed in car crashes. The opioid crisis is ravaging our Tennessee communities, and today Congress has taken a big step to help Tennessee fight back. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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Sen. Lamar Alexander: What President Trump did was 'improper'
Feb 1, 2020
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Today, the U.S. Senate passed the FUTURE Act, which included my bipartisan amendment that makes permanent $255 million in annual funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions, cuts up to 22 questions from the federal student aid application form (FAFSA), and eliminates bureaucratic verification nightmare for most students. (VIDEO) It’s hard to think of a piece of legislation that would have more of a lasting impact on minority students and their famil
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Tuesday, I spoke on the Senate floor about how Senate Democrats are already busy trying to find someone to blame after they blocked a proposal that could have helped avoid a sixth straight year of insurance rate increases since Obamacare took effect. Democrats wrote the law, they should look in the mirror. About 10 days ago, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer came to the Senate floor and warned that very soon, health insurance companies will begin to announce their proposed rates for the year
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It’s been a real privilege to be the United States Senator from Tennessee. Every day, I’ve woken up thinking I might have a chance to do something good for our country, and I’ve gone to bed most nights thinking that I have. Thank you, Tennessee. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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As a United States Senator, I wake up every day thinking I may be able to do something good for our country, and I go to bed most nights thinking that I have. It has been a great privilege to serve the people in Tennessee, as governor and in the United States Senate. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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WATCH: Today, instead of Democrat’s plan to provide two years of funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other Minority Serving Institutions, I asked the Senate to pass my bill to permanently fund these institutions, including the six in Tennessee. But, Senate Democrats blocked the passage the Student Aid Improvement Act, which would permanently fund HBCUs, simplify the Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA), provide Pell grants to parole-eligible prisoners, allow Pell
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For the next two weeks, the U.S. Senate will be in recess, so it will give me the chance to travel around Tennessee. Here’s what I’ll be talking to Tennesseans about. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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Sen. Lamar Alexander bids farewell to the U.S. Senate
Dec 2, 2020
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This week, all the attention was on the border wall, and that was important—Congress passed a bill with 22 billion new dollars for border security, including 55 miles of physical barrier. But we also got a lot of other things done. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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Shutting down the government of the United States of America should never ever be a bargaining chip for any issue. Period. It should be to governing as chemical warfare is to real warfare. It should be banned. More than 50 senators last night, including almost all Republicans and 5 Democrats, voted to keep the government open. The president has said he would sign the continuing resolution to keep the government open. The Democrats are closing down the government because they want a result on an
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Shutting down the government is not a demonstration of skill or courage. It's a demonstration of incompetence, a failure by negotiators. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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Today, I was in Knoxville with U.S. Secretary Alex Acosta and Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Julie McPeak to discuss a new rule the Trump Administration announced this week that could allow a self-employed Tennessee plumber or farmer or an employee of a small business to buy lower cost employer health insurance that will include the same protections, such as coverage for pre-existing conditions, that employees of large companies have. This new association health plan rule could help two groups
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On Monday, I announced I will not be a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate in 2020. The people of Tennessee have been very generous to me, and I’m very grateful Tennesseans have given me the privilege of serving more combined years as Governor and Senator than anyone else from our state. | Senator Lamar Alexander
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COVID-19 is a science matter, not a political matter. But it has become too much of a political matter. If you want to go back to school, back to college, back to work, out to eat, and maybe even see a little football, stay six feet apart, wash your hands, and wear a mask.‬ | Senator Lamar Alexander
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