Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I want to go back just for a moment to the question of discretionary and mandatory funding again."

"If I may interrupt, if you did it that way, let's say we had a 5-year surge to help launch Precision Medicine, we would not have to spend the same amount every year."

"Some of us here in the Senate are in the results business, and a lot of us are on this committee."

"The idea that you would, in the discretionary fund... come in with a lower amount of money in discretionary funding... that is not very encouraging."