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Lamar Alexander’s parting shot: Senate needs ‘a change of behavior’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

$6M federal grant to fund Tennessee mountain bike trails

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Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks from behind a face mask during an interview Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Lamar Alexander faults angry tweets for driving division

By Jonathan Mattise - Associated Press

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks from behind a face mask during an interview Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Sen. Alexander nears finish line of decades in public office

By JONATHAN MATTISE - Associated Press

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks from behind a face mask during an interview Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Lamar Alexander calls on Donald Trump to ‘put the country first’

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 7, 2020 file photo, Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., gives his opening statement during a Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on new coronavirus tests on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican Senate Health committee chairman says the Trump administration should provide President-elect Joe Biden access to transition materials -- particularly on COVID vaccine distribution --- “to ensure a smooth” transfer of power. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Sen. Alexander: Trump admin should aid in Biden transition

By JONATHAN MATTISE - Associated Press

Marquita Bradshaw speaks with the media after winning the Democratic Senate primary, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, in Memphis, Tenn. Bradshaw scored an upset win and will face former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty in the November election. (Ariel Cobbert/The Commercial Appeal via AP)

Bradshaw to visit every Tennessee county in Senate run

By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press

Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks during a Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on new coronavirus tests on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Lamar Alexander to self-quarantine after staff member tests positive

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FILE - In this Friday, April 17, 2020, file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, walks from the podium after speaking about the new coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, in Washington. Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Fauci, have placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the virus. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Lamar Alexander says Anthony Fauci to testify via video conference Tuesday

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Law enforcement stand near a vehicle that appears to be part of the crime scene where four people were killed, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 in Miramar, Fla. The FBI says four people, including a UPS driver, were killed after robbers stole the driver's truck and led police on a chase that ended in gunfire at a busy Florida intersection during rush hour. (Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald via AP)

Slain UPS driver’s family questions police response to chase

By Adriana Gomez Licon and Terry Spencer and Curt Anderson - Associated Press

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty poses for a photo after an Associated Press interview at a regional meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. Hagerty is not wavering from his staunch support of President Donald Trump, defending him from Democrats' impeachment efforts while heaping praise on the president for his handling of the economy and the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Senate candidate Hagerty heaps praise on Trump at conference

By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Alexander says in a written statement that impeaching Trump would be a “mistake.” He says next year’s election is “the right way to decide who should be president.” He says it was “inappropriate” for Trump to push another country to investigate a political opponent. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Closely watched GOP senator calls impeachment a ‘mistake’

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Funding plan for $189M US courthouse in Tennessee advances

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Surprise Medical Bill Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

When the cure for surprise medical billing is worse than the problem

By Hal Scherz

In this June 20, 2019 photo, the Capitol is seen from the roof of the Canadian Embassy in Washington. Health care is on the agenda for Congress when lawmakers return, and it’s not another battle over the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. Instead of dealing with the uninsured, lawmakers are trying to bring down costs for people who already have coverage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress has ambitious agenda tackling health care costs

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander has lump removed from leg

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Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the ranking member, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, meet before the start of a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, the morning after they reached a deal to resume federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump had halted. Sen. Alexander says Trump called him Wednesday morning &quot;to be encouraging&quot; of bipartisan efforts to come up with a plan to stabilize health insurance premiums. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Patty Murray, Lamar Alexander unveil bipartisan plan for health costs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Two people ask to take a photo with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., center, as the Senate and the House of Representatives shut down for the week-long Memorial Day recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Rep. Nadler, whose district covers parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York, has gained notoriety by leading one of the House committees investigating President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP, Democrats team up to address surprise medical bills

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks at the unveiling of the official portrait of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. Alexander said Monday he is not running for re-election in 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) **FILE**

Lamar Alexander to Trump: Rethink border emergency declaration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

James Mackler poses for a portrait Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. Mackler, a Democratic Nashville attorney and former Army helicopter pilot, is the first candidate to announce a 2020 bid for the seat Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander will leave after his term. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise)

Mackler announces Dem bid for Tennessee’s open Senate seat

By JONATHAN MATTISE - Associated Press