Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I hope we can continue that conversation because that idea, the idea of a 2-year budget, has bipartisan roots."

"Would you think in this time of what I think is overspending, with an alarming deficit, it would be a good idea to not have new entitlement spending?"

"Did I understand you to say that if the information that the GAO discovered was brought to your attention, that that might result in a investigation of that institution, which could lead to a variety ..."

"if the things that you saw that the GAO presented were brought to you about a specific institution, you said that that might result in anything from censure to expulsion, is that correct?"