Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander
Andrew Lamar Alexander, Jr.is an American politician and the senior United States senator from Tennessee having served since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Alexander previously served as the conference chair of the Republican Party in the US Senate from 2007 to 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 July 1940
CityMaryville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
defend home possible solution
If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
both required votes work
In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
multiple president voices
We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
music realized unify
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.