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Alexander Says Democrats’ Health Care Plan Scares Seniors, Cuts Medicare
Offers 200 Pages of Republican Proposals That Would Reduce Debt, Premiums and Protect Medicare |
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November 5th, 2009 - WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today made the following remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
• “It’s not Republicans who are scaring seniors about Medicare. It is the Democratic health care bills that are scaring seniors about Medicare, and they have a right to be concerned.”
• “The question is not whether there are cuts to Medicare. That’s what the proposal is. And those cuts are in these large, expansive health care plans—the 2,000-page bill coming from the House soon, half of which is paid for by cutting Grandma’s Medicare. Rarely does a Senator have an opportunity to vote on so many Medicare cuts and so many new taxes, as we apparently will have when this bill comes to us.”
• “Republicans believe that the American people do not want this 2,000-page bill headed our way. We want instead to start over in the right direction, which means reducing costs step by step to re-earn the trust of the American people by reducing the cost of health care . . . Our proposal would offer a choice: a couple hundred pages, not 2,000; reducing premiums; reducing debt; protecting Medicare instead of cutting it; no tax increases instead of higher taxes; and reducing costs. That’s the kind of health care plan Republicans have offered. That’s the kind we believe Americans want, and we hope over time that will earn bipartisan support.”
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November 19, 2009 -
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Alexander Opposes Nomination of Judge Hamilton
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November 19, 2009 -
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Alexander Says New Health Bill Is “Same Turkey Americans Didn’t Like in August”
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November 18, 2009 -
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Enzi, Nelson, Alexander Move to Protect Student Loans
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November 18, 2009 -
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Alexander: Republican Proposals Lower Premiums and Reduce Costs, While Democrats Increase Premiums, Raise Taxes and Cut Medicare
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November 18, 2009 -
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Alexander: Food Safety Bill Passes Senate Hurdle
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November 17, 2009 -
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Alexander: Medicaid Expansion Creates Unfunded Mandate That Will Bankrupt States
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November 17, 2009 -
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Alexander, Corker Announce $101.4 Million for Tennessee Military Projects and Veterans Bill
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November 17, 2009 -
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Alexander Statement on Nomination of Judge Hamilton
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November 17, 2009 -
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Alexander, Webb Introduce Bipartisan Clean Energy Legislation with Emphasis on Nuclear Energy Investment
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November 16, 2009 -
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Alexander Statement on Tennessean Space Shuttle Pilot
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November 10, 2009 -
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Alexander Honors Veterans, Slain Mountain City Soldier on Senate Floor
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November 9, 2009 -
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Alexander: Democrats' Health Care Bill Puts U.S. on Path to Bankruptcy
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November 7, 2009 -
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Alexander: Health Care Reform Should Lower Costs, Not Add to Debt
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November 6, 2009 -
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Alexander Statement on Highest National Unemployment Rate in 26 Years
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November 6, 2009 -
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Alexander Announces Funding For Tennessee Justice and Science Programs
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November 5, 2009 -
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current Press Release
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November 5, 2009 -
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Alexander Opposes Democrats’ Cap-and-Trade Bill, Says Americans Want to Know Cost of New National Energy Tax
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November 4, 2009 -
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Alexander Votes to Give Tennesseans 20 Additional Weeks of Unemployment Benefits
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November 4, 2009 -
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Alexander Warns of Half Trillion Dollar Cut to Medicare in Democratic Health Care Plan
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November 4, 2009 -
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Alexander Assails Democrats’ $2 Trillion, 2,000-Page “Full of Surprises” Bill, Offers Republican Alternatives
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