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Voting Record on Legislation that Involves Welfare and Poverty

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Lamar Alexander
U.S. Senate: Senator
Republican Next Election Year: 2014

Education:
JD, New York University Law School, 1965 BA, Latin American History, Vanderbilt University, 1962

Profession:
Lawyer, Law Firm of Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry and Woolf, 1998 Lawyer, Law Firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman and Caldwell, 1993-1995 Chair, Republican Exchange Satellite Network, 1993-1995 President, University of Tennessee, 1988-1991 Chair, Leadership Institute at Belmont University, 1987-1988 Special Counsel to Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, 1977 Commentator, WSM Television in Nashville, 1975-1977 Lawyer/Founding Partner, Law Firm of Dearborn and Ewing, 1970-1976 Director, Tennessee Governor Winfield Dunn's Election Campaign, 1970 Executive Assistant to Bryce Harlow, White House Congressional Liaison for President Richard Nixon, 1969-1970 Legislative Assistant, Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, 1967-1968 Director, Howard Baker's Campaign for United States Senate, 1966 Law Clerk, United States Circuit Court Judge John Minor Wisdom, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, New Orleans, 1965-1966 Co-Founder, Corporate Child Care Services Goodman Professor, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Lawyer, Law Firm of Fowler, Roundree and Robertson Author

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Voting Record on Legislation Involving Welfare and Poverty

(2010) HR 4213 Unemployment Benefits Extension

Outcome: Concurrence Vote Passed (59/39)

Summary: -Requires states to determine whether an individual is eligible for emergency unemployment compensation or regular compensation if the individual meets the following criteria (Sec. 3):

-Has been eligible for emergency unemployment compensation; -The benefit year for which the individual was eligible for emergency unemployment compensation has expired; -Has remaining entitlement to emergency unemployment compensation with respect to that benefit year; and -Would qualify for a new benefit year in which the weekly benefit amount of regular compensation is at least either $100 or 25 percent less than the weekly benefit in the aforementioned previous benefit year.-Prohibits states from reducing the average weekly benefit amount of regular compensation payable during the period of the agreement occurring on or after June 2, 1010 to an amount that is less than the average weekly benefit amount of regular compensation which would otherwise have been payable during such period, as in effect on June 2, 2010, in order to ensure eligibility for emergency unemployment compensation (Sec. 4). -Establishes emergency designations for sections 2 and 3 of this Act, related to extending unemployment benefits, for the purposes of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (Sec. 5).

Alexander's Vote

N

(2010) HR 4213 Unemployment Benefits Extension

Outcome: Cloture Invoked (60/40)

Summary: -Requires states to determine whether an individual is eligible for emergency unemployment compensation or regular compensation if the individual meets the following criteria (Sec. 3):

Alexander's Vote

N