Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Should we not complete projects we have already started to build?"

"Governing is about setting priorities, and given our current fiscal constraints--especially on non-defense spending--we are going to have to make some hard decisions this year to make sure the highest..."

"We hope to move rapidly on the appropriations process this year."

"It looks like everybody wants an appropriations process this year, so we're hoping very much that's possible."