Lamar Alexander actually said...

"It seems to me that as we're moving ahead with this Affordable Care Act and this new regime with all the exchanges and everything, we have an opportunity, I hope."

"This is a committee on which we can have some fairly profound differences of opinion when we're talking about new laws, new spending, new policies."

"It seems to me that the question before us is: Who needs help, and who's there to provide the help?"

"I've heard from a number of Governors, who haven't made a decision about Medicaid expansion, that it's hard for them to make that decision without knowing the added cost of it to the States."