Fox News - Fair & Balanced

Lamar Alexander

Senator Lamar Alexander Wants Taxpayers, Not Lawmakers, to Have Control of GM

This is a rush transcript from "Your World With Neil Cavuto," June 4, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: All right, well, we know that the government is going to own 60 percent of the new GM and a chunk of Chrysler, but what do you get for that?My next guest has a plan of sorts here — actually, it is not of sorts — it is a plan — to give taxpayers a piece of the action, all the shares of GM and Chrysler, stock. Then, instead of answering to Washington, the automakers will answer to you, to us.Lamar Alexander, Republican senator from Tennessee.Senator, good to have you.This — this is a novel idea. I guess we do own a chunk of it. We might as well have the proof, right?SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER (R), TENNESSEE: Yes, instead of having it in the name of your government, you have it in your own name.• Video: Watch Neil's Cavuto's interviewAfter GM comes out of bankruptcy, the — the government will own about 60 percent of it, and about 8 percent of C...

Read More

  1. Sebelius' ObamaCare fundraising bigger than Iran-Contra?

    Sen . Lamar Alexander wants the Government Accountability Office to investigate Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising of the Affordable Care Act

  2. Reaction to Obama's Call for U.S. Energy Security

    Sen . Lamar Alexander says president's plan is 'ambitious'

  3. Labor Hearing on Boeing Plant in South Carolina

    Sen . Lamar Alexander on bill to protect growing employers

  4. Health Care Reform: So Close or So Far?

    A bipartisan review of the health care summit, by GOP Sen . Lamar Alexander and Dem Rep. Rob Andrews

  5. TARP to Get More Strings Attached

    Sen . Lamar Alexander on revised financial bailout plan.

  6. SEN . LAMAR ALEXANDER : Please, Mr. President, Listen to the People

    In my opening remarks on behalf of Republicans at the White House health care summit on Feb. 25, I said that millions of Americans under the Democratic plan would pa...

  7. A Political Decision?

    Sen . Lamar Alexander gives his take on Spector's party defection

  8. No. 3 Republican Backs Sotomayor for Supreme Court

    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 Sonia Sotomayor , who...

  9. Second court invalidates Obama appointments to labor board

    A national labor board which has long been accused of making union-friendly decisions was dealt another blow Thursday, after a second federal appeals court found Pre...

  10. Fight Over Filibusters

    This is a partial transcript of "Special Report With Brit Hume," May 20, 2005, that has been edited for clarity.Watch "Special Report With Brit Hume" weeknights at 6...

  11. Are other Obama appointees in question?

    Uncut: Sen . Lamar Alexander sounds off on federal court's ruling that President Obama violated the Constitution with recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board

  12. Fight Over Filibusters

    This is a partial transcript of "Special Report With Brit Hume," May 20, 2005, that has been edited for clarity.Watch "Special Report With Brit Hume" weeknights at 6...

  1. Sen . Lamar Alexander on the Budget Battle

    Sen . Lamar Alexander , (R-Tenn.), on efforts to reach a compromise on the budget and entitlement reforms.

  2. Sequester a 'failure of presidential leadership' by Obama?

    Sen . Lamar Alexander sounds off

  3. GOP Split Over Spending Showdown?

    Sen . Lamar Alexander weighs in

  4. Senate defeats Democratic, Republican student loan plans

    Interest rates on new student loans are likely headed higher after senators on Thursday failed to advance proposals to keep them from doubling come July 1.Dueling me...

  5. Successor to "No Child Left Behind" introduced by Senate Democrats

    The one-sized-fits-all national requirements of No Child Left Behind would give way to standards that states write for themselves under legislation Senate Democrats ...

  6. Obama faces resistance in bid to unload popular southern utility giant

    Spring rains cascade over the lip of the Norris Dam in a torrent of white foam and spray. A hundred yards downriver from this concrete waterfall, people stop at the ...

  7. GOP lawmakers oppose push to sell Tennessee Valley Authority

    John Roberts reports from Atlanta

‹ Prev12345Next ›