Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I hope as we move through the process, and we're trying to respect your stewardship of scarce dollars, that we see what that delay would do is really waste money."

"I wonder if you could tell me how successful that was, whether some of that is still going on or not in terms of our border control activities."

"I would urge you if, when you go home, you think well, I wish I had said this, or I wish I had suggested that, I hope you will send it in to us because ideas like that sometimes have their way of gett..."

"The words that come to my mind are that to--on the front page of USA Today is a long story entitled U.S. Energy Independence Is No Longer a Pipe Dream."