. > our guests this week are tennessee republican senator lamar alexander. he was elected to his third term n the senate and took over the gavel of the so-called health committee, which is health, education, labor and pension. in your first deal with the devil, oversaw the rewrite of which child left behind, it had been 13 years since it was attended to. i want to tell our audience that perspective anis serving particular ly as the secretary of education, serving as the former president of the university of tennessee, so lots of experience in the field you brought to there. thank you for being with us. let me introduce our two reporters. thank you for being here with us on newsmakers. >> i'm wondering what you think your next project will be and get done hink you can in 2016, the project that you think >> you're right about senator murray. she's very result oriented and i trust her. it's because of that relationship that we were able to get something done. number 1, we want to turn our attention to the innovation bill. how do we get treatments and devices th

senators lamar alexander and ray and representatives john kline and bobby scott. the house side, as well as their dedicated staff. this would not have happened without them. [applause] president obama: i just want to if not for some significant ideological differences on these issues -- there were not -- but this is a good example of how bipartisanship can work. people cannot agree on everything at the outset, but they were willing to listen to each other in a civil, instructive way. to work through these issues. compromise where necessary, while still keeping their eye on the ball. i think it is really a testament to the four leaders of the respective committees that they set that kind of tone. that is not something we often see in washington. not a lot of grandstanding or posturing, just a lot of hard work. i want to thank them for their outstanding work that they did. [applause] president obama: i also want to thank my outgoing secretary of education, arnie duncan. he has dedicated his life to the cause of education. sometimes, in the nicest possible way, he ha

swain: our guest this week is tennessee republican senator lamar alexander.he took over the gavel of the help committee, which is health, education, labor, and pension. first time with the gavel, oversaw the rewrite of the no child left behind. a big process. i want to tell our audience that you bring to this perspective on education, particularly serving as president bush's secretary of education, and you are the former president of the university of tennessee. mr. alexander: thank you, susan. is swain: alyson klein "education week" reporter. ." -- els "cq roll call niels lesniewski, "cq roll call ." mr. lesniewski: what i wanted to ask first was having completed one big project with a rewrite of the l w

of the states that was successful was tennessee, which is of course the home state of senator lamar alexander, the chairman of our committee in the senate that is drafting education legislation. and tennessee impressed arne duncan and the department of education and became one of the recipients, and tennessee made some honest declarations about the state of education in their state when they made this application. it was a state that took it seriously about making dramatic change and a relationship was struck between arne duncan and lamar alexander, and many other members of congress. and so time has passed and during the last several years there's been a change of thinking in congress, in the country, and in the department of education about the course to follow, and just a week or two ago in the white house president obama signed the new elementary and secondary education arctic which was promulgated on a bipartisan basis and had the active support of not only senator alexander but his democratic counterpart, senator patty murray, a democrat of the state of wawrchl washington. this bipartis

swain: thank you for being here. " guest, lamars alexander. our two questioners, alyson .lein and niels lesniewski he worked with senator patty murray and democrats to get it done. you talked with him about the education department essentially being reformatted under this . how do you see the rollout? -- under this new law. how do you see the rollout? ms. klein: obviously, the obama administration will only be in office for another year. they are eager to put as much of an imprint as they can on the law before they leave office. alexander andator senator patty murray will be watching that closely. that they are me going to hold three hearings. it sounds like senator alexander will certainly be watching to make sure the department of education follows the law, does not overreach. ms. swain: can you anticipate that the education department will have to be restructured as a result? ms. klein: i think that is still becoming clear. i don't think there will be a massive restructuring of the education department. the bill combines a number of program

there are people i want to thank, first of all, senators lamar alexander and patty murray. on the senate side. jon: no child left behind is gone. now is every child succeeds les that is the national education law intended to give state and local school districts more flexibility and reduce the requirement for standardized testing for those between grades 3, and h. the president about to sign that into law. he is quite happy about the prospects, a rare bipartisan moment on capitol hill and at the white house. jenna: we are monitoring what the president has to see. national security level raised in switzerland where authorities are searching for terrorist suspects connected to isis. police increasing security measures as they actively search for four people, senior foreign affairs correspondent in london with the latest. >> reporter: we're getting a good deal more information about this terror alert in geneva in the past hour or so. fox news has been told by officials in the security areas of the government in geneva they decided but the city on a heightened state of security

28% of the vote because mainstream republican vote was hopelessly fractured between bob dole, lamar alexander, steve forbes coming in fourth that year. the day after the primary, bob dole came downstairs, reframed the race as a contest between the mainstream and extreme, started beating pat buchanan 2-1 in primary after primary and had the nomination sewed up. it took pat buchanan winning to united republican party in favor of bob dole. >> we've got to wait next year for wednesday to know what happened on tuesday? we can't go by election results tuesday night as to who actually won? if trump wins the new hampshire primary, are you going to give that same speech? >> it's going to take more than one caucus and more than one primary to nominate a candidate this cycle. >> you are not selling that primary, you are not selling the republican primary in new hampshire if you say it doesn't matter. >> no. >> that's what you are saying. >> there will be good candidates who will finish fifth or sixth and be out of the race after that. more than one or two candidates will survive new hampshire this year.

first of all, senators lamar alexander and patty murray on the senate side, and representatives john kline and bobby scott on the house side as well as their dedicated staffs. this would not have happened without them. [ applause ] >> i just want to point out it's want as if there were some significant ideological significant different issue on this bill. no, there were. but this is an example of how bipartisanship can work. people did not agree on everything at the outset, but they were willing to listen to each other in a civil, constructive way. and to work through these issues, compromise were necessary while still keeping their eye on the ball. and i think it's really a testament of the four leaders of the respective committees that they set that kind of tone, and that's something we don't always see here in washington. there wasn't a lot of grandstanding, not a lot of posturing. just a lot of good, hard work. i just want to thank them for outstanding work that they did. [ applause ] >> i also want to thank my outgoing secretary of education arne duncan. he has dedicated his lif

in the senate and the house, a point made yesterday by one of its sponsors, republican senator lamar alexander of tennessee. >> not many things this important pass the us senate 85- 12. this is a big christmas present from the senate and the house and it's going down to the president and i hope he wraps a big red ribbon around it and sends it out to 100 million students, 3.4 million teachers, 100,000 pubic schools. >> woodruff: states and school districts will now have more responsibility for judging how schools are doing and how to utilize testing. teacher evaluations, long a subject of intense debate, will not necessarily be tied to tests. but there remain many questions about the practical impact: will states take action when needed? and will some districts return to a time of ignoring the needs of struggling and minority students? let's take a closer look at what this law changes and some of those questions and criticisms of it. alyson klein who has been covering this was at the white house signing today. she's with "education week," an organization we collaborate with on education stories

[applause] >> on newsmakers, tennessee senator lamar alexander talks about recent passage of the every child receive at president obama signed into law earlier this. >> with congress on holiday, he said will feature a full lineup of primetime. monday our new series landmark cases. this week is wrote the way. -- roe versus wade. charleston area. thursday, christmas of the white house. day, orhristmas president bill clinton receives the bottle rise. rise. dole the. when say authors talk about their books on the supreme court. tuesday night at 8:00, congressional history with her mitch mcconnell. p.m. world war ii and its impact. friday night at 8:00 we will travel to williams for. that's just the programs featured in prime time on spam. now republican presidential candidate bush in new hampshire. during his opening statements and criticizes donald trump over his lack or apology. policy knowledge. new hampshire will hold the nation's first residential mary in february. just over an hour. >> when you know you up at seven years of on-the-job training going on, the one thing we all want to h

first of all, senators lamar alexander and patty murray on the senate side, and representatives john klein and bobby scott on the house side as well as their dedicated staffs. this would not have happened without them. [ applause ] i just want to point out that it's not as if there weren't some significant ideological differences on some of these issues. no, there were. but i think that this is really a good example of how bipartisanship can work. people did not agree on everything at the outset, but they were willing to listen to each other in a civil, constructive way. and to work through these issues, compromise where necessary while still keeping their eye on the ball. and i think it's really a testament of the four leaders of the respective committees that they set that kind of tone. and that's something that we don't always see here in washington. there wasn't a lot of grandstanding, not a lot of posturing. a lot of really hard work. i want to thank them again for outstanding work that they did. [ applause ] i also want to thank my outgoing secretary of education arnie duncan.

. >> this week on newsmakers, senator lamar alexander talks about successful efforts to pass the ever child succeed at. president obama signed the legislation on december 10. senator alexander chairs the education committee and was president george w. bush secretary of education. he is a former governor of tennessee. >> american history tv, every weekend on seat band tv. louisiana state louisiana professor on the history of the united states. >> he starts out in 1727 by establishing the junto. the young man's improvement club. these were about improving their community and individual morals, they would read books and share ideas. these were young men like himself who were not born into wealth but who believed it was possible to rely on yourself, study and get ahead in society. >> sunday morning at ten on road to the white house rewind, we look back at the 2000 campaign of george w. bush and his announcement to run while in new hampshire. he went on to win the general election beating al gore. later at four on real america, the 1958 army film on the reason why the north atlantic treati

james lankford, my junior senator from oklahoma, cory gardner, lamar alexander and i think two other senators are looking to propose rule changes, and i think it's -- it's overdue. and i want to mention one other thing, too, mr. president. i said back in -- i think it was 2006 that i would never vote for another omnibus bill like we are prepared to vote for, and i said that was the last one. i want to serve notice that if enough people did this, we wouldn't find ourselves in this position. however, we are still in this position. and the reason i'm standing here today is to get on the record why i am going to support this. we have one thing that was -- back when i had the highway bill, we were trying to put additional things on the highway bill. one was to lift the ban on exports of oil and gas. and we were not successful in doing it, so at that time i made the announcement we have a couple other chances, the last one being the omnibus spending bill, and got a commitment that that would be on that bill. so i said at that time if that's the case, if we end uplifting the ban on that bil

lamar alexander and steve forbes.ut what wii saw was pat buchanan really was the catalyst to get the people angry in the republican mainstream on his side. he even won the new hampshire primary duh just didn't have that broad enough support. bob dole was close in second and the mainstream support coalesced around dole. we're likely to see something like this year. but again it is really early. there are six weeks to go and the voters really aren't engaged just yet. >> thanks so much. >>> the fifth gop presidential debate only on cnn. the first debate 6:00 eastern tonight. still to come. she might not be at the debate but hillary clinton will certainly be on the stage. we'll talk about that next. you can't breathed. through your nose. suddenly, you're a mouthbreather. a mouthbreather! how can anyone sleep like that? well, just put on a breathe right strip and pow! it instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than cold medicine alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers. breathe

in the senate, the chairman of the help committee and senior senator from tennessee, senator lamar alexander. you know, the chairman had an opportunity to go down a partisan road, but instead he committed to work with me earlier this year to get this important bill done. i was very proud to work with him and many of our colleagues to break through the gridlock and keep this bill moving forward. together we passed our bill through the help committee with strong bipartisan support. we passed our bill in the senate with strong bipartisan support. we got approval from our bicameral conference committee with strong bipartisan support. last week the house passed this final legislation with strong bipartisan support. and today i hope our colleagues will approve this final bill with the same bipartisan spirit that has guided this progress thus far. now, nearly everyone agrees that no child left behind is badly broken. i have heard from parent after parent, teacher after teacher about how the law overemphasized testing and how oftentimes those tests are redundant or unnecessary. and i've seen firstha

host: we talked with senator lamar alexander, who is a supporter of the rewrite of note had left behindving more control, more authority to states. will that change? guest: i do not think it will significantly change. if you go back and look at no child left behind -- host: and supported by george w. bush. guest: signed into law by george w. bush. it was an example of republicans increasing government. in per-pupilcrease spending on education, but you pretty much flat lined on the national test. personally, when i believe should happen, and it should have been on the local level, local communities say let's give kids a choice, let's give parents a choice. let's take the amount of money spent and give the vouchers to parents. and let that parent take the child to any school they want. baltimore, detroit, washington, dc, let's have freedom of trace in education. guest: well, i have come around on vouchers over the years. i have been to cities like cleveland, milwaukee, the district of columbia here has a public-private cooperation voucher program. and the thing about school is every tiled

thetor lamar alexander, chair of the health, education, labor and pensions committee talking about aty of issues including why he things a new education law is needed. >> it began with no child left behind in 2001. federal requirements for tests, reporting the tests, a few other things. when president obama came in, that accelerated with what they call race to the top. congress, and we get ourselves the blame, we felt since 2007 to reauthorize no child left behind, suddenly, government -- governors had to come to washington pleading mother may i saying may we evaluate our teachers this way? maybe set of standards this way? maybe fix performance goals this way? washingtonou had running 80,000 schools in 42 states. we got rid of all of that. we kept the tests. we will know how people are doing. those are state designs tests. what to do about the tests now moves to the governors of chief state school officers, classroom teachers. that is why it had such support. everyone was fed up with washington telling 100,000 public schools so much about what to do. onwas creating a backlash efforts

senatorwsmakers" with lamar alexander of tennessee. at then coverage of presidential candidate jeb bush. next to the powers, we will have a chance to take the measure of the candidates for the that's the democratic candidates for president. answeredhey have all many questions in the past few months, but much has changed in the world since they last debated five weeks ago and this is the last debate of the year. in less than two months, voters in the state will him to the polls. david: please welcome the democratic candidates for the nomination for president. secretary heller he clinton. -- secretary hillary clinton. [cheers and applause] martha: governor martin o'malley. [cheers and applause] david: and senator bernie sanders. [cheers and applause] martha: good evening to you all. the rules for tonight are very basic and have been agreed to by all three campaigns in advance. candidates can take up to a minute-and-a-half to respond directly to a question. for a rebuttal, for a follow-up, 45 seconds will be allowed. there are green, yell

i want to thank chairman cline and ranking member scott as well as senators lamar alexander and patty murray, the chair and ranking member of the senate health committee for their extraordinary efforts on this bill. this is a bipartisan bill. e worked together. frankly, we have a little trouble working together here, but they worked together there and then we worked together here. it's turning out well. my friend indicated that he would not give the bill an a-plus. i was trying to reflect on any bill i've ever voted on that i would give an a-plus to. it's not a perfect bill. but it represents a reasonable compromise that will strengthen elementary and secondary education in this country, provide certainty going forward and help prepare the next generation of students, no matter who they are, how they learn, or where they live. theirccess in college, in careers and vocations, and as innovators and entrepreneurs in our economy. i'm particularly proud, and i thank mr. scott and i thank also the two senate leaders, as well as mr. kline, but this -- that this conference report includes the

up thate caller brought senator lamar alexander will be joining our "newsmakers" program on sunday at0:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. he is the chairman of the house education and labor and pensions committee. how would you respond to salt river on twitter who says that people are not on board with this bill? we sent you there to stop this kind of government abuse, why has gop folded? guest: iran on that and i put my ran onles in public -- i that and i put my principles in public. i agree. that is not why they sent the republicans there. this budget will probably pass with more democrats voting for it than republicans. the republicans own the house, so not a very good negotiation when we are losing on almost all the big issues and the last caller called about sequestration, and we broke the caps on the military and social spending side by $80 billion or so. i agree. rightyan is making the moves right now in terms of process, so we hope that the process will yield a better product deer, but there is a lot of special interest groups out have been promised strains of government revenues, so that

i want to thank representatives john kline and bobby scott and senators lamar alexander and patty murray for building a bipartisan foundation that got this bill done and will help reform our national education system. the bill, of course, is not perfect, but it's a huge improvement over nclb. over the last 13 years we've learned that the one-size-fits-all approach to fixing failing schools just wasn't working. that's why this bill is designed to find a balance between giving states more flexibility while at the same time still making sure that states intervene and fix schools where students are not learning. over the last several years, starting when i got here, i've been -- i met with principals and teachers, students, of course parents and school superintendents, other school administrators in minnesota, and these conversations have helped me develop my education priorities to help improve our schools, our communities and our nation's future, because that's what this is about. i worked with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to find common ground, and i'm pleased that many of my pri

first of all, senators lamar alexander and patty murray on the senate side and representatives john clyneand bobby scott on the house side, as well as their dedicated staffs. this would not have happened without them. [ applause ]. and i just want to point out that it's not as if there weren't some significant ideological differences on some of these issues. >> laughter. >> no, there were. this is an example how bipartisanship can work. people did not agree on everything at the outset. but they were willing to listen to each other in a civil constructive way and to work through these issues compromise were necessary while still keeping their eye on the ball. and i think it's really a testament of the four leaders of the respective committees that they set that kind of tone. and that's something we don't always see here in washington. there wasn't a lot of grandstanding, posturing. just a lot of good, hard work. i just want to thank them for the outstanding work that they do. [ applause ]. i also want to thank my outgoing secretary of education arnie done. duncan. arnie has dedicated his l

they released a conference report this past monday and the chair lamar alexander said he wants the billair out for a week in the chamber before anyone takes it up and after that it would head to the president's desk. the white house has not taken an official stance on this bill but the obama administration was involved in these negotiations. they got a lot of what they wanted including a small preschool program that will for the first time be in the law. and so i think that you can probably expect that if the president gets this bill he's going to sign it and that would put a new law on the books by the end of the year. >> maggie severance politico's education reporter. thanks for the update. >> thank you. >>> she was such an authentic person. >> i've always thought there was more to the story of lady bird than anybody had ever covered, and certainly more than what i wrote in "all first ladies." i think she became the first modern first lady. she had a big staff. she had a very important project. she wrote her book as soon as she left the white house. she really invented the modern firs