Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I mean, 30 years ago, State budgets were 8 percent Medicaid; today, they are 25 percent."

"Unless we unleash the States from Federal Medicaid requirements that our public research universities...will continue to be underfunded."

"I think one reason for the increase in scholarships like the HOPE Scholarship...is the hope that having gone to the University of Tennessee, they will stay in Tennessee."

"I want to thank Senator Harkin for this hearing, and even the constructive way that it has been conducted."