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      <excerpt> We&amp;#39;re looking for dramatic change, not incremental change,&amp;quot; said Duncan, who appeared in tandem with Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander at a sort of summit ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...people to the private sector rolls. There are ways to do that, and this is not what this bill does.&quot; Corker and Sen. Lamar Alexander, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, are again attacking the health-care reform legislation after the measure de</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Solar power has its place, but not front and center, according to Senator Lamar Alexander. He spoke at an annual meeting of industrial leaders in ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> I think Lamar Alexander is speaking effectively for a step-by-step approach. In other words -- and then there are a whole set of new players who are ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> I think Lamar Alexander is speaking effectively for a step-by-step approach. In other words -- and then there are a whole set of new players who are ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The New York Times: &quot;The Senate is expected to vote Saturday on whether to take up the legislation. The majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, refused to say Thursday whether he had the 60 votes needed to clear that procedural hurdle.&quot; Reid</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> US Sen. Lamar Alexander , R-Tenn., today warned Tennessee Valley industrial leaders that &#8220;America&amp;#39;s clean-energy future needs also to be a cheap-energy ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> ... ghetto called Medicaid and we think if the American people know that the bill will collapse under its own weight,&amp;quot; warned Sen. Lamar Alexander (R- TN). ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>They were heady days in early 2009, when we saw former Sec. of Education and now Tennessee&amp;#39;s senior U.S. Senator Lamar(!) Alexander join current Sec. of Education Arne Duncan in co-writing an op-ed for The Tennnessean on the importance ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Jim Webb and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander have introduced the Clean Energy Act of 2009 (S. 2776) as an alternative to cap-and-trade legislation. The bill aims to double nuclear energy production in ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Health care reform was on the agenda yesterday. A great post by JC prompted a flurry of responses. It focused on Tenn. Sen. Lamar Alexander and his remarks equating Medicaid coverage with living in a ghetto. As I can&amp;#39;t do justice to the ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>then-Sen. Mel Martinez (Fla.), Lindsey Graham (SC) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) But throughout her speech, Fiorina stressed that she was just as conservative as her primary opponent DeVore, who is seeking to outflank her on the right.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The Senate and House will now go to conference to work out differences between their versions of the bill. Sen. Lamar Alexander voted YES......send e-mail or see bio Sen. Bob Corker voted YES......send e-mail or see bio ...</excerpt>
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