Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I wouldn't trust the FDA more than I would trust the Tennessee Department of Public Health to keep our medicines safe."

"I don't like maintenance of effort. I'm opposed to one for higher education."

"Mr. President, this is squeezing--Medicaid is going to squeeze everything out of our budget, and I won't be able to afford to fund higher education properly."

"It's the maintenance of effort for Medicaid that has gotten higher education into the mess it's in today, in my judgment."