“Lamar Alexander” on The Daily Caller

Few smile at the thought that they will be “targeted” by the White House — Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander is no exception. (more)

Tennessee GOP Senator Lamar Alexander will step down from his position as Senate Republican Conference chairman in January, according to a press release. (more)

Senate Republicans say the Obama administration is intent on undermining the right-to-work laws that are in force in 22 states, as evidenced by a recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint against Boeing. (more)

In the wake of the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) contentious decision to prevent Boeing from opening a plant in South Carolina, three Republican senators have introduced legislation to protect South Carolina’s right-to-work laws. (more)

“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles!” said Thomas Edison in 1879 during his first public demonstration of the incandescent light bulb. And he did. Edison changed the world. (more)

Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander said on Sunday that billionaire real estate mogul and possible Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cannot beat President Barack Obama. (more)

With a budget showdown looming, Republican Senate leaders turned up the heat Tuesday on President Obama, pinning responsibility on the White House to propose cuts in entitlement spending and saying Obama would have to “bite the bullet” to keep the national debt under control. (more)

South Carolina Republican and conservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint introduced legislation to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday, the first official step in bringing the House-passed repeal bill fight into the staid upper chamber. (more)

Filibuster reform is not likely to come to the Senate. At least not the substantial reform proposed by Democratic senators that would curtail the practice of blocking legislation by denying the 60 votes needed for a cloture vote to proceed with debate. (more)

Top Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, spoke out Tuesday against what Alexander called the “brazenness” of proposed changes by Democrats to the filibuster. (more)

A key Republican senator whose vote is being sought by the White House to ensure passage of a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia said Tuesday the agreement will be ratified by the Senate. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to approve a nuclear arms pact with Russia, handing President Barack Obama a huge victory on his top foreign policy priority. (more)

Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday dug in their heels against doing anything more than passing an extension of the Bush era tax cuts and a continuing resolution to keep funding the federal government before heading home for Christmas. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh off the tea party’s show of election might, GOP Sen. Jim DeMint said Tuesday he’ll force a showdown next week with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other old guard Republicans over “earmarked” pet projects that DeMint and other victors last week made a symbol of out-of-control deficit spending. (more)

Republicans are supposed to be focusing on the election every minute, every second. (more)

Dear Mr. President: (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday released a summary of the draft energy bill that Democrats hope to pass in the next week or so. You can read the full summary here. (more)

Although they’ve called repeatedly for repeal of the Democrats’ new health reform law, some senior Senate Republicans have not endorsed a bill that would actually do it. (more)

Nearly two months after the BP oil spill, President Obama tapped secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus to oversee recovery efforts in the Gulf. Since dubbed the “oil czar” in the press, Obama described Mabus’s new role during an Oval office address to the nation on Tuesday night. (more)

At first it might seem that Democratic Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and Republican Sen. Bob Bennett (Utah) don’t have much in common ideologically. (more)