Lamar Alexander actually said...

"States have to fix them year after year after year, and at the point of spend we are at right now..."

"Why would we reduce the part of the Federal budget that generates these returns in science, innovation, and economics just at the time when the rest of the world is investing heavily in precisely thos..."

"Maybe we actually have an energy policy in the United States and don't know it."

"My bias is to go the other way, using as evidence most of what's happened in the last few years."