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Beltway pundits already have written the obituaries on this year’s Congress, saying election-year politics and the battle over a potential Supreme Court nomination by President Barack Obama will prevent anything significant from being done in 2016.
Thank goodness, some members aren’t listening.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., who last year helped craft the long-awaited No Child Left Behind update which was passed by both the U.S. House and Senate and signed into law, is now working to improve and expand access to mental health services.
His partner in the bipartisan legislation is Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., with whom he worked on the education bill in 2015.