Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Opening statement."

"I just want to make sure that those 12 items are things that you can do while we are still debating when to move ahead with our Higher Education Act."

"We wanted the public to know what our 50 million students in 100,000 public schools--how they were doing and how the schools are doing."

"It should have been done some time ago. This is a very important area for the students and faculty members and administrators all over the country."