{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=1f1fb17c-2856-494c-9fd2-bfb0a80b9957", "Alexander, Corker Welcome Lee University\u2019s \u201cVoices of Lee\u201d to Tennessee Tuesday", "2013-12-17", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "TN", "Lamar Alexander", "A000360", "www.alexander.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Senators, Tennesseans visiting Washington treated to performance by members of university choir that performed at January\u2019s presidential inauguration\u00a0\u00a0\r\nWASHINGTON, Dec. 17 \u2013 U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) today welcomed a performance by the Voices of Lee, the travelling choir of Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn., during Tennessee Tuesday, the weekly breakfast the senators hold for Tennesseans visiting the Capitol. The choir performing at today\u2019s event is part of the Lee University Festival Choir that Alexander, as a member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, personally recommended to perform at the presidential inauguration this past January. (Click here to see video of today\u2019s performance.)\r\nRecalling that announcement as he introduced the choir this morning, Alexander said, \u201cOne of my prerogatives as a committee member was to identify one group to perform at the presidential inauguration. So, I drove down to Lee University in Cleveland, and they assembled the student body there, and I said, \u2018We don\u2019t know who the president is going to be, but we do know one thing: that the Lee University singers will be singing at the inauguration of the President of the United States\u2019\u2026They are terrific musicians and they represent our country and our state and their community in a beautiful way.\u201d \u00a0\r\nCorker said, \u201cAs mayor of Chattanooga, I had the opportunity to hear talented young people from Lee University perform many times, and I was delighted to welcome the \u2018Voices of Lee\u2019 to Washington this morning. The recognition they received from Lamar Alexander, the Senate\u2019s resident musician, is high praise indeed.\u201d\r\nBeginning a long history with Lee, Alexander invited Lynn Golden of Lee College, as the university was called at the time, to sing the national anthem when he was sworn-in as governor of Tennessee on January 20, 1979. The new governor had met and heard Lynn sing during his 1,000-mile campaign walk across Tennessee.\r\nAt the breakfast today, the choir performed \u201cSilver Bells\u201d and a rendition of The Preamble to the United States Constitution, transitioning into \u201cAmerica the Beautiful.\u201d\r\n\u00a0\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=1f1fb17c-2856-494c-9fd2-bfb0a80b9957"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7695939168334007, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}