There are 60 article(s) tagged Lamar Alexander:

• May 2022

  • Local, state and national Republican strategist John Ryder dies

    The former Shelby County Republican Party chairman and member of the Republican National Committee, as well as its general counsel, died over the weekend at the age of 72. 

    By Bill Dries May 17, 2022

• January 2021

  • Zoning variance approved for Cooper-Young project

    The Board of Adjustment approved zoning variances for a planned retail center in East Memphis, an expansion of Memphis Country Club, a retail and townhouse development in Cooper-Young, and the expansion of a funeral service on Lamar.

    By Tom Bailey January 28, 2021

• December 2020

  • Cohen, Kustoff vote for veto override, split on larger stimulus checks

    The two Republican U.S. senators representing Tennessee have not commented on the override of the Defense Authorization Act veto by Trump or the move to boost stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 per person. 

    By Bill Dries December 30, 2020

  • Alexander, Blackburn split on COVID-19 relief bill

    The city’s representatives in the U.S. Senate split on the bipartisan $900 billion package while the city’s two Congressmen both voted for the bill.

    By Bill Dries December 22, 2020

  • Supreme Court rejects Texas suit supported by Tennessee

    U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander had commented during a Friday recording of NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he didn’t see the basis for the lawsuit.

    By Bill Dries December 11, 2020

  • Sanford: As Republican leaders fiddle, democracy hangs in the balance

    Trump’s inexplicable refusal to accept the outcome of a fair election, combined with the shameful complicity from elected Republican leaders, is driving our country to the brink of chaos.

    By Otis Sanford December 10, 2020

  • Alexander Exit Interview: Trump’s influence on GOP will continue

    Sen. Lamar Alexander also said President Donald Trump has a record to be proud of during the interview on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast. And he said he carried Memphis in his five statewide general election wins by campaigning everywhere in the county, not just the Republican suburbs.

    By Bill Dries December 04, 2020

  • Alexander exits Senate with defense of filibuster, call for change

    The senator from Tennessee told colleagues on the Senate floor Wednesday that being a senator is like “joining the Grand Ole Opry and not being allowed to sing.”

    By Bill Dries December 02, 2020

• November 2020

  • Alexander to Trump: ‘People remember the last thing you do’

    The Monday, Nov. 23 appeal to Trump is Alexander’s second in four days and came hours before the Trump administration signaled it will begin work on the transition with President-elect Joe Biden and his team.

    By Bill Dries November 23, 2020

  • Alexander says presidential transition should begin

    The U.S. Senator from Tennessee says there’s a “good chance” Biden is the next president.

    By Bill Dries November 20, 2020

  • Local reaction falls along party lines

    The response reflects Memphis’ Democratic majority that supported Biden, as well as statewide totals that gave Trump Tennessee.

    By Bill Dries, Omer Yusuf November 07, 2020

  • President-elect Joe Biden calls for unity

    “I sought this office to restore the soul of America,” 77-year-old Biden said in a Saturday night victory speech not far from his Delaware home.

    By The Associated Press November 07, 2020

• September 2020

  • Sanford: Alexander’s flip-flop on confirmation vote should surprise no one

    No one should be surprised that Lamar Alexander flip-flopped on Supreme Court nominations. He has morphed over the last 40-plus years into a shameless political partisan, and is content to end his political career that way.

    By Otis Sanford September 24, 2020

  • Lee backs immediate appointment of Supreme Court justice in election year

    Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday he believes the president and Senate have the responsibility to fill the vacancy left by the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the presidential election.

    By Sam Stockard September 23, 2020

  • Alexander: Fill U.S. Supreme Court vacancy now

    Tennessee’s senior Senator ended a Sunday of speculation about where he would stand on the move to fill the vacancy with a written statement Sunday afternoon.

    By Bill Dries September 20, 2020

• August 2020

  • Hagerty, Bradshaw to meet in November Senate race

    It's Hagerty versus Bradshaw in the November general election Senate race on the statewide ballot. And the winners of Thursday's Republican and Democratic primaries came with some surprises for pollsters on the Republican side and for Democrats looking at the primaries campaign bank accounts.

    By Bill Dries August 07, 2020

• July 2020

  • Hargett draws fire in U.S. Senate committee on state’s resistance to expanded absentee voting

    Hargett called for more federal funding for election procedures in the pandemic without Washington putting any conditions on state election officials in the process. Lawmakers questioned him closely on the state's opposition to expanded absentee balloting even after it was ordered by a state court. 

    By Bill Dries July 22, 2020

• June 2020

  • Alexander says statues, monuments should be reviewed, rotated

    Speaking to an online meeting of the Memphis Rotary Club, the U.S. senator from Tennessee said efforts to take down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Washington D.C. show "a terrible misunderstanding of history." Alexander also said the lawsuit seeking to do away with the Affordable Care Act is "flimsy."

    By Bill Dries June 30, 2020

  • Never mind how we’re going to vote. What are we voting on?

    Believe it or not, something important is on the August ballot.

    By Michael Nelson June 01, 2020

• May 2020

  • What a $12 million local COVID testing infusion will – and won’t – do

    Mayor Jim Strickland’s proposal to expand testing moves the city closer to a more ambitious scaling up of COVID-19 testing as local health experts explore an even broader scale for the long term.

    By Bill Dries May 21, 2020

  • After aide tests positive for COVID-19, Alexander in self quarantine

    U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee appeared on "Meet the Press" hours before the test results were announced Sunday by his chief of staff. Alexander is in self quarantine where he will chair by videoconference a Monday Senate committee meeting featuring health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci. 

    By Bill Dries May 10, 2020

• March 2020

  • Blackburn, Alexander split on COVID-19 aid package vote

    Neither of Tennessee's two Republican senators was happy about the aid package that extends paid sick leave as one of several responses to the economic impact of novel coronavirus.

    By Bill Dries March 19, 2020

• February 2020

  • Sanford: Lamar Alexander needed courage – and an editor

    Instead of the word salad that came from Tennessee’s senior Republican senator late on the evening of Jan. 30, all we really needed was a single sentence.

    By Otis Sanford February 06, 2020

  • Alexander, Blackburn vote not guilty in Senate impeachment trial

    The acquittal votes were expected, but there were differences in the reasoning offered by the two Republican Senators. Also reaction from the city's two Congressional representatives.

    By Bill Dries February 05, 2020

• January 2020

  • Alexander reveals how he plans to vote on Trump impeachment witnesses

    U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee revealed his decision Thursday night on calling witnesses as part of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

    By Bill Dries January 31, 2020