Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I believe families should not live in poverty, and I think the idea of raising the minimum wage to address that is a stale, bankrupt, ineffective policy."

"If the issue is jobs, then could we not come up with a better proposal...?"

"Republicans believe there is a better way than this and we would like to offer those ideas."

"my hope would be that if we are going to continue to consider this proposal about jobs that we would be allowed to have amendments that would do better than cause a loss of 500,000 jobs"