Lamar Alexander actually said...

if you have somebody singing out of tune on the Grand Ole Opry, you don't cancel the Opry. You cancel the act.

Alexander uses an analogy to suggest targeted actions against problematic institutions rather than broad measures.

08/03/2010

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This budget proposes cutting the Corps' funding to the actual level of spending in 2007--we are literally moving backward, on an agency that...

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It is a problem that I don't expect you to solve today, but it is one I am going to work with you to solve.

First, all of us are urging you to do things you are not doing. Let me thank you for something you are doing.