Lamar Alexander actually said...

"We ought to have a lean bill, and see if we can go back to work this year and reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act."

"America's children and families deserve nothing less, and I look forward to continuing to work with this committee toward that goal."

"The correct thing for us to do, in my opinion, is for the Secretary to show restraint on insisting on a one-size-fits-all set of conditional waivers."

"I look forward to working with Chairman Harkin on that as he--we were both thinking the same thing."