Tennessee’s senior U.S. senator, Lamar Alexander, spoke from the Senate floor in Washington, D.C., today to honor his colleague Sen. Bob Corker, who did not seek re-election to a third term and is leaving Congress.
Alexander said his fellow Republican “is always a man on a mission with little regard of the obstacles in the way.”
Alexander, of Maryville, told a story of Corker was curious about smuggling supplies from Egypt to Gaza, so he hailed a Jeep, rode to the border, inspected the tunnels, took photographs and showed them to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they met that afternoon, according to a news release from Alexander’s office.
Tennessee’s senior U.S. senator, Lamar Alexander, spoke from the Senate floor in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, to honor his colleague Bob Corker, who did not seek re-election to a third term and is leaving Congress. (Screenshot: youtube.com/watch?v=NCDIP3KutKo)“The prime minister might have been surprised by Bob Corker’s conduct, but none of us who knew Bob Corker were surprised,” Alexander said.
Alexander also referred to Corker’s stint as mayor of Chattanooga. He said Corker “would be the first to tell you that Chattanooga was already on a roll – that a lot of people had a lot to do with Chattanooga’s success – but everybody else will tell you that he was the best, fastest runner to have on the last stage of the relay team because he took what was already beginning to happen in Chattanooga and put it into high gear.