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Lamar Alexander

Politicians Who Look Like Turkeys (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Gordon Brown, Slidepoll, Harry Reid, Turkey Politics, Edward Nalban, Thanksgiving, Mitch McConnell, Bill Bradley, Thanksgiving Jokes, Thanksgiving Humor, Chris Dodd, Politicians Turkeys, Political Turkeys, John McCain, Turkeys, Politicians Who Look Like Turkeys, People Who Look Like Turkeys, Politicians, Comedy News

Is it just us, or is the political scene overrun by guys who look like turkeys? It's probably just us, but we thought we'd compile our favorites. ...

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While Senators Denounce Medicaid, The Uninsured Turn To Charity

Blake Rutherford | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lamar Alexander, Tennessee, National Association of Free Clinics, Health Care, Arkansas, Politics News
Blake Rutherford

This weekend, thousands of Arkansans convened at the Statehouse Convention Center for a mass free health clinic, the first of its kind in Little Rock.

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Okeedoked in Tennessee: How to Avoid Serious Discussion About Health Care Reform: Southern Style

Molly Secours | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bob Corker, Lamar Alexander, Health Care Reform, Jim Cooper, Tennessee, Health Care, Politics News
Molly Secours

Dr. Stewart, an OB-GYN, recently lost a 40-year old uninsured cervical cancer patient who refused treatment so that her family wouldn't be financially ruined. She died last week.

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Tamminen: Why Does Oklahoma Want To Drown New York? (Commentary)

cnbc.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Barbara Boxer, Green Jobs, James Inhofe, Carbon Regulation, John Kerry, Climate Change, Lamar Alexander, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Clean Energy Economy, Clean Energy, Global Warming, Green News

Democrats Barbara Boxer (CA) and John Kerry (MA) moved away from discussing the environmental impacts of climate change -- and the reason, therefore, ...

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Jason Linkins

Pat Buchanan's Disagrees With 'Obama Is The New Nixon' Comparisons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Pat Buchanan, Video, Richard Nixon, Judd Gregg, Barack Obama, Media News

Pat Buchanan, who was a close confidant of Nixon, recently scoffed at the idea that the Obama White House is comparable to Nixon, calling it "idiotic," because, duh, Nixon was a historically unlovable bastard-creature, who left trails of foul-smelling ichor all over the Oval Office, like a slug. And no one liked Nixon, except for the "Perotistas, and what you might call the tea-party folk" who loved him immensely. Irony!

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Lamar Alexander Compares Obama To Nixon: "Don't Create An Enemies List"

Roll Call | Keith Koffler | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lamar Alexander Nixon Administration, Lamar Alexander, Lamar Alexander Richard Nixon, Lamar Alexander President Obama, President Obama, Obama Enemy List, Lamar Alexander Obama Enemy List, Politics News

A top Senate Republican took to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to suggest that the Obama White House is plotting a political strategy similar to t...

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Are There GOP Senators Who Will Back the Climate Bill?

Bill Scher | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Kerry-Boxer, Lamar Alexander, Gop, Lindsay Graham, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Democratic Caucus, House Climate Bill, Green News
Bill Scher

The possibility of Republican support for "cap and trade" legislation is getting renewed attention. A deal might involve Democratic support for more nuclear power and offshore drilling.

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The Wyden - Bennett Healthy Americans Act: Why Not Just Say Yes?

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Nelson, Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Wyden-Bennett-Healthy-Americans-Act, Maria Cantwell, Lamar Alexander, Bob Bennett, Judd Gregg, Tom Carper, Daniel Inouye, Ezra Klein, David Brooks, Mike-Crapo, Politics News
Lanny Davis

What exactly does the HAA accomplish that could possibly attract such broad, bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate? Universal health insurance coverage and immediate deficit neutrality in the first two years.

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Sen. Alexander: There Will Be A "Minor Revolution" If Dems "Ram" A Health Care Overhaul

CNN Political Ticker | Ted Barrett | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Health Care Reform, Bipartisanship, Health Care, Tennessee GOP, Politics News

Alexander warned there would be "a minor revolution in this country" if Democrats try to "ram" a health care overhaul using a legislative tool called ...

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Add a Gigawatt a Day to Keep the Climate Crisis at Bay

Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Integral Fast Reactor, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Lamar Alexander, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Green Energy, Global Warming, Al Gore Global Warming, Obama Global Warming, Obama Energy Bill, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Reactor, Green-Energy-Jobs, Energy Bill, Green Energy Economy, Climate Bill, Green News
Steve Kirsch

If we think we're going to make the goal from solar, wind, and other renewables alone, we must be smoking something. Every clean power technology, including nuclear, has to play a role.

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To Vacation or Not, in Tennessee? That Is the Question (for the Coal Industry and the NRDC)

Dan Shapley | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Appalachia, Tourism, Mountaintop Removal, Vacations, Coal Mining, Tennessee, Green News
Dan Shapley

Nowhere has the debate between the advocates of tourism and strip-mining been as fever-pitched as in Tennessee. Please plan a vacation there!

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Lamar Alexander Breaks With Party To Back Sotomayor

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Sonia Sotomayor, Alexander Sotomayor, Lamar Alexander Sonia Sotomayor, Gop Sonia Sotomayor, Republicans Sotomayor, Republicans for Sotomayor, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Senate's No. 3 Republican announced Thursday he'd break with the rest of his party's leaders to support Supreme Court nominee S...

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On the Climate Bill Fence: What Sen. Alexander Is Thinking

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, U.S. Congress, Lamar Alexander, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Policy, Legislation, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Despite Alexander's conservative credentials, the environmental community has long hoped he could be counted on in a legislative vote to sap greenhouse gas emissions.

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Lamar Alexander's $750 Billion Flimflam Plan on Nuclear Energy

David Fiderer | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Cap and Trade, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Lamar Alexander, Clean Energy, Coal, Republicans, Moody's, Business News
David Fiderer

Anything that addresses the issue of climate change involves a tradeoff, and nuclear power may very well be one part of the long-term solution.

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Lawmakers Squabble Over GM Plant Locations (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

Read More: GM Bailout, GM Bankruptcy, General Motors Bankruptcy, Tennessee, Lamar Alexander, GM Plants, Business News

With the General Motors bankruptcy just hours old, lawmakers are already jockeying for control over where GM plants will be located. Just yesterda...

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Sen. Alexander Pushes For $700B For Nuclear Reactors

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Energy, Nuclear Power, Green News

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander called Wednesday for doubling the number of nuclear reactors nationwide, a potentially $700 bi...

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America's Waterways Need Help - and, Yes, You Can Help

Steve Fleischli | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Arlen Specter, Russ Feingold, Los Angeles River, Waterways, Lisa Jackson, Congress, Lamar Alexander, George Voinovich, Dianne Feinstein, Clean Water Restoration Act, Amy Klobuchar, Streams, New York City, Rivers, Clean Water Act, U.S. Senate, Kansas, Commerce Clause, Supreme Court, Clean Water, Max Baucus, Wetlands, Drinking Water, Rapanos, Green News
Steve Fleischli

By some estimates, 60 percent of U.S. creeks, rivers, and streams and tens of millions of acres of wetlands and other sensitive waterbodies have lost federal protection in the last few years due to the Supreme Court's decisions.

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Ryan Grim

GOP Health Care Plan Lets Patients Choose To Spend Own Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican-Healthcare-Plan, Gop, Tom Coburn, Richard Burr, Patients' Choice Act of 2009, Obama Health Care Plan, Health Insurance, Lamar Alexander, Devin Nunes, Politics News

The Republican Party has a deal for you: Under the health care proposal the GOP released Wednesday, you are fully entitled to spend your own money in ...

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Ryan Grim

GOP Senator To Specter: At Least I Don't Have To Campaign In Erie For You Anymore

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter Democrat, Thad Cochran, Politics News

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) met briefly with his former Republican colleagues Tuesday at their weekly lunch after announcing that he was leaving the ...

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Time to Applaud the "New" EPA

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Epa, Arsenic, Clean Coal, Toxic, Benjamin Cardin, Coal Industry, Lamar Alexander, Environment, Mercury, Coal Ash, President Obama Environment, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Coal, Stephen Johnson, Toxins, Green News
Trip Van Noppen

We've got to make sure that the coal industry's considerable money and influence and the false hope of "clean coal" don't sidetrack government action.

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Lamar Alexander Walks the Walk for the Mountains and Communities of Appalachia

Sandra Diaz | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Walking, Flannel, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Tennessee, Green News
Sandra Diaz

There has been an exciting and unprecedented flurry of activity this week to stop mountaintop removal coal mining, with the White House, the EPA, an...

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Ryan Grim

GOP Outnumbered At Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Florida, Cuba, Right Wing News, Mother Jones, Mel Martinez, Lamar Alexander, Orrin Hatch, Sen. Johnny Isakson, Hispanic Voters, Mike Pence, Hispanics, Democrats, Politics News

It's not a good sign for the GOP when even an avowedly pro-business gathering is stocked with far more Democrats than Republicans. On Thursday mornin...

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Sam Stein

Baucus: Health Care Reform Should Get 70 Votes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Baucus Health Care Reform, Fiscal Responsibility Summity, Baucus Health Care, Dodd Health Care, Chris Dodd Health Care, Max Baucus, Obama Reform, Politics News

Senator Max Baucus, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee and is poised to play a leading role on health care reform, says that he wants any bill to...

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TVA Board Members' Donations To Lamar Alexander

Nashville Is Talking | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee Coal Spill, Lamar Alexander, Tennessee, TVA Board of Directors, Tva, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

As I looked at the political contributions made by the Tennessee Valley Authority Board Members, one recipient kept coming up over and over: Sen. Lama...

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A Vet's Message To The GOP on Veterans Day -- Shove It

Bob Geiger | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Day, GI Bill, Gop, Bob Corker, Lamar Alexander, Orin Hatch, Jim Webb, Jon Kyl, Politics News
Bob Geiger

I see Republicans turning up on Veterans Day with their flowery pronouncements of how much we Vets mean to them when they prove at every turn that they really don't give a damn about the troops.

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