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Lamar Alexander
2020 elections
Aug. 6, 2020
Trump’s Candidate Bill Hagerty Wins Wild Tennessee Senate Primary A primary in which both candidates kept trying to outflank each other on the right was won by the original front-runner and Trump endorsee.
By Ed Kilgore
the national circus
Feb. 4, 2020
Frank Rich: Iowa and the Rolling Democratic Calamity The Iowa debacle was a huge gift — and not the first — to Donald Trump and the Republicans.
By Frank Rich
the national interest
Jan. 31, 2020
The Circular Reasoning of the Senate Republican Trump Cover-up They don’t want to support Democrats impeaching Trump because it’s partisan.
By Jonathan Chait
impeachment
Jan. 31, 2020
Murkowski Kills Final Hope For Witnesses in Trump Trial “It is sad for me to admit that, as an institution, the Congress has failed,” said the senator, who was previously undecided.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 30, 2020
What We Learned on Day 9 of the Trump Impeachment Trial Lamar Alexander’s decision against hearing witnesses left Democrats pondering final steps before acquittal.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 23, 2020
What We Learned on Day Three of the Trump Impeachment Trial Democrats’ Thursday plan focused on the law and the facts underlying the first article of impeachment concerning Trump’s alleged abuse of power.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 presidential election
Jan. 7, 2019
Single-Issue Presidential Candidates Like Jay Inslee Are Rare Inslee says he’ll only talk about climate change. That will make his identity clear, but it’s not an approach that’s likely to win.
By Ed Kilgore
lamar alexander
Dec. 19, 2018
Will Lame Duck Lamar Make Trouble for Trump and His Party? While Lamar Alexander represents a lost tradition of Republican bipartisanship and moderation, he’s probably too genteel and loyal to act as a gadfly.
By Ed Kilgore
Alexander and Murray’s Bipartisan Obamacare Alliance Disintegrates When Obamacare stabilization measures reached their moment of truth, bipartisanship ceased and the GOP agenda took over.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Deal to Repeal Obamacare Mandate Now for ‘Stabilization’ Later a Bad Idea GOP is wrongly suggesting that damage caused by repealing the Obamacare mandate would be offset by subsequent enactment of the Alexander-Murray bill.
By Ed Kilgore
Why You Might Be Seeing a Bipartisan Health-Care Bill in December Republicans need cover to do the right thing on stabilizing Obamacare markets, and a fat, must-pass spending bill could be the ticket.
By Ed Kilgore
Ryan Rejects Bipartisan Health Care ‘Fix’ and Now Trump Does, Too Before the Alexander-Murray proposal was even finalized, the House Speaker deep-sixed it. And Trump, who was supportive yesterday, changed his mind.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans Appear Uninterested in Deal to Fix Trump’s Obamacare Mess Though Trump said he backs the deal reached by senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, it got a cool response from Republican lawmakers.
By Margaret Hartmann
Trump Urges Congress to Fix the Obamacare Problem He’s Caused Having substantively and politically sabotaged Obamacare, Trump is now offering dubious support for bipartisan efforts to stabilize insurance markets.
By Ed Kilgore
Obamacare Premiums Set to Skyrocket in 2018 After the serial failure of GOP Obamacare-repeal bills, Republicans are now letting insurance rates go up instead of cooperating on a quick fix.
By Ed Kilgore
Bipartisan Health Talks Are Dead — for Now Things were looking up for bipartisan health-care talks, until the GOP decided to try once more to repeal Obamacare. But someday reason may prevail.
By Ed Kilgore
The GOP Must Make Obamacare Sabotage-Proof by Month’s End Or else health-insurance premiums will (almost certainly) rise by double digits.
By Eric Levitz
Parliamentarian Deals Trumpcare a Final Death Blow Now, a bipartisan health-care bill may rise from its ashes — if Senate Republicans can convince Trump to pursue solutions over sabotage.
By Eric Levitz
7 Senate Republicans Help Kill GOP’s Obamacare Repeal Bill A second major GOP Obamacare repeal bill, the one Congress passed in 2015, was handily defeated by the Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
May 19, 2016
By Jonathan Chait
Senate Aide Facing Child Porn Charges Found Dead Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander’s chief of staff likely committed suicide.
By Joe Coscarelli
arizona shooting
Jan. 9, 2011
By Mike Vilensky
