corker: i could not be more fortunate to work with someone like lamar alexander who wakes up every single day trying to bring out the best in those around him. lamar is someone who i first thought about running for public office, state-wide, i sought out and spent a lot of time talking with. he and i both loved and cherished howard baker. lamar was his staffer back in the day when senators have one staffer. there is a long-term relationship there. as a matter of fact we are having dinner tonight. but i do think it is beneficial in our state to have two people that don't compete in any way. two people that wish only the very best for the other. two people that celebrate the successes of the other. two people who are very different with different backgrounds and have focused on different sets of issues and candidly follow each other's lead when we know the other person has more expertise and knowledge in other areas. lamar's knowledge of higher education, having been president over university, over a university -- oh university -- of a university and mine are very different. it is a great r

>> i cannot be more fortunate to been to work with someone like lamar alexander who wakes up every singleday trying now the best. when i first thought about running for public office state why i sought out and spent time talking with. we both looked and cherished howard baker. he was the staffer back in the days. so there is a long term relationship and we are having dinner tonight as a matter of fact but it is beneficial in our state to have people who don't compete in any way who wish only the very best for the other. to people who celebrate the of successes of the other. very different with very different backgrounds to deal with sets of issues and believes when we know the person has much more expertise is certain height -- areas. hisses is -- use of education and mine are very different. it is a great relationship and it is rare. sometimes people of the same party have more rivalries than you can imagine a but that is not the case with us. i feel we serve our stay well. . .

in ted's old committee, lamar alexander and patty partnered to unanimously pass on young update of no child left behind. in the finance committee, after months of negotiations, republicans after months -- republicans and democrats came together to pass a bill 20-6. in the foreign relations committee due to the work of bob corker and ben cardin, an iran built the white house had been threatening to veto cleared unanimously. the full senate passed it with one dissenting vote and the senate will sign it. the first step is getting committees functioning. the next step is to open debate on the floor and allow senators to start offering amendments. the ability to offer amendments is one of the things that long made the senate, the senate. we had hardly been able to do so in recent years. it hurt, not just republicans, but democrats too. there is a democratic senator running for reelection in alaska next year. the end of his six-year term. he never had an opportunity to get a roll call vote on an amendment in his full term. his full term. i figured it was time to open things up. we had our f

merck alexander polarsky key west florida. tevin lamar porterperry.ineer, kodiak, alaska. kevin francis deck watch officer, cutter harriett lane port smith, virginia. carlos manuel cutter tampa, port smith, virginia. andrew george ratie graduating with honors deck watch officer, cutter sherman honolulu hawaii. his commission will be presented by his father, u.s. coast guard, retired. jonathan alexander ray deck watch officer, st. petersburg florida. connor, christian regan deck watch officer. san juan puerto rico. stephen michael reynolds jr. student engineer cutter spencer, boston, massachusetts. his commission will be presented by his father, u.s. air force national guard. jessica lee richardson. deck watch officer cutter willow, new port rhode island. victor nicholas rosarta, student engineer, seattle, washington. nicholas walsh, rogers graduating with honors, deck watch officer cutter vigorous, virginia beach, virginia. devin francis rodi. deck watch officer, cutter dependable, virginia beach, virginia. her commission will be presented by her sist