Will talk about later to get to senator alexanders remarks at the 10 30 scheduled time. Thank you, mister president. It is such an honor to be here and to join my colleagues in paying tribute to senator alexander, there are many that want to speak and have a few words to say. All of us wish we could do this to a background of music with lamar playing the piano. That would be the proper setting but i am so pleased to stand and honor the three terms of service in this body and the way he touched the lives of individuals in this body and millions of tennesseans. We know that he has talked about it in his remarks, he has worked with educators. He has worked with innovators. He has worked with the healthcare community, and works with entertainers, many of whom called tennessee home. When i was serving in the house and representing tennessees seventh Congressional District so many times i would look over here and i would say what is lamar not working on today because he always had such a bro
Be determined by the two leaders. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell now, mr. President , this week our friend and colleague, the senior senator from tennessee, will mark a major milestone in his states history. As of tomorrow, Lamar Alexander will have served as tennessees governor or u. S. Senator for 24 years, eight months and 15 days. More combined years in offices than any other tennessean. Of course, senator alexander also remains the only tennessee governor ever popularly elected to the United States senate. The only Tennessee Republican to be undefeated in six statewide primary elections, and his 2008 general election vote total of 1,579,477 votes is still the largest ever recorded by a tennessee statewide candidate. So, mr. President , i ask consent that a statement from the tennessee secretary of state, trey hargan, who has calculated each of these political accomplishments, appear in the record following my remarks. The presiding officer without objection
That story as also is included miss lerners failure to willingly testify before this committee. Im going to put all that aside for a second. Miss oconnor, youre white house counsel. Im a lawyer, youre a lawyer. I want to step away from the irs problem and investigation for a minute and just have a comparative discussion because i think in the responses there may be some misunderstanding with respect to the independent the treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and id like to talk to you a minute about their powers. Not with the irs, but just in general. Id like to compare the powers of the treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration with the fbi because one of the things we heard from the commissioner yesterday is, were going to do the Inspector General is going to do an investigation, and that is probably a good thing. There are many who dont believe its enough, but you and i having a discussion on a comparative just of authority and powers perhaps can let other peopl
Reform in Tea Party Nation all agree with us. While radio touts a nonbinding resolution, congressional leaders from both parties are working on real legislation to resolve this issue. Any copyright performed simply must include a radio performance right. To resolve this and other issues, we support several thoughtful bills. This would insist if broadcasters value the content they must value the content of others. This w0u8d remove the loophole. Now i had time for a unified holistic approach to music licensing and time for a music omnibus bill or music bus for short. Where kwoip write review under way, we need our industry in congress to be visionary and created a unified approach for the future of our business and the music bus idea is really simple. Fair market pay for all music creators across all platforms. And a music only hi bus bill need not wait for the entire copyright act to be advised. Congress registers maria polenti noted these issues are ripe for resolution. Mr. Chairman,
And we paid 21,000 for it and i thought myself, theyre buying a new car every year a nicer car than we have. By the way its a ford. A very nice carment they could have had that. Anyway, that is a lot of money, and when i reflect on this, think about some of the concerns that have been raised. Well what about the small investors . To me, the small investors are the people who are in the greatest need of getting advice that is in their best interests, because they dont have margin for error. And so when i hear that argument, i am i agree with the notion that small investors deserve advice, and we need to get more advice for small investors, but we need to get advice that is in their best interests. Folks who are wealthy and get conflicting at vice, thats unfortunate and wed like to prevent that but the consequences for them are less catastrophic than the family that saved 50,000 and is trying to figure out how to spend it. By the way, that small investor who has 50,000 or 100,000, the va