Article: FLOOR REMARKS OF SEN. ALEXANDER - PUBLIC OPTION

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The office of Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., issued the following news release:

Mr. President, I will let the majority leader make his own announcements, but there are a lot of discussions in the news media today that in a short period of time he intends to hold a press conference announcing that he will push ahead with the so-called public option in the health care legislation - one that currently includes an opt-out provision for States. I don't know whether he intends to do that or whether he doesn't. He is entitled to make his own announcement, as I said. But it provides a good opportunity to talk about what we mean by a public option in health care, or a ...

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