Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Our sense is that there are things that can be done within existing authority at the Department of Energy to get started on this track."

"We have had a stalemate here for about 25 years, as you have said in your report. And we in Congress have caused some of that."

"We are going to work together, Mr. Chairman, with you and others to try to break the stalemate, address the issue and begin to implement the best ideas from this report."

"In the proposal in the Appropriations bill, of course, any site that is chosen, even as a pilot site, would have to be approved by the Congress."