Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Federal means Washington meddling in that."

"I always thought the cure for that, though, was just to establish a rating system and say, like you do in football, there is Division 1, 2, and 3, and just tell the people of Tennessee, they are playi..."

"I think there is a difference between national and Federal. National to me means States getting together, doing things."

"There is no need to stop our efforts to clean up the air and move ahead with clean energy until we have a consensus on carbon."