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Tuberville, Britt Use Bipartisanship as Wedge to Advance Alabama’s Needs
knows a lot about teamwork and forming winning coalitions. He was a college football coach for 40 years. He had outstanding success at Auburn University (1999-2008).
Britt brings her two years of experience as chief of staff for Sen. Richard Shelby. Now 99th in seniority in the Senate, she already knows some senators via her position with Shelby. (She was briefly the 100th senator in seniority; John Peter Ricketts of Nebraska was appointed.) Britt also served as CEO of the Business Council of Alabama (2018-2021).
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Management (FARM) Act along with two Republican congressmen, Ronny Jackson (TX-13) and Pete Sessions (TX-17). Making this bipartisan are Democrats Vicente Gonzales (TX-34) and Abigail Spanberger (VA07). Tuberville designed such a bill “because we’ve seen an alarming increase in foreign purchases of farm land and food companies, particularly by China.”
OPINION —
Many have heard the quote by Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father. But the setting for his saying, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes,” has seldom been noted. Franklin said that quote (in French) to a friend in a 1789 letter he sent to France. It indicated his concern that the nascent U.S. Constitution might someday falter, as all do except “death and taxes.”
U.S. Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt have not signed on to the idea in the discouraging Franklin quote. They wish to use bipartisanship for both short-term and longterm purposes. Short-term is that Democrats have a majority of 51 seats (with the three independents). Republicans such as Tuberville and Britt know the math and adjust to it. Long-term, they hope bipartisanship leads to legislative victories.
Both senators are conservatives faithful to the Republican Party. But they have unique backgrounds that help them with legislative work. Tuberville
“I just don’t take it as a Republican bill or Democratic bill, I look for all bills that are going to be helpful for the people of the state of Alabama,” she said.
“Joe Manchin (D-WV) and I are on the Armed Services Committee; we’ve discussed many bills. I worked with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ). There is some partisanship, but there are still a lot of things we can do in the Senate as a whole. This is still America.”
Tuberville recently introduced the Foreign Adversary Risk
