Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Well, I would join you. I read your op-ed, and those are very appropriate questions, important to our national security, and they cost a lot of money."

"You mean the material arrives, and within 6 years, it's in a dry cask, is that what you're saying?"

"one of the complaints we've sometimes had about inefficiency is that the jerky quality of the appropriations process sometimes cause wasted money, right?"

"If there were a private repository... that was willing to take your used fuel, would it be appropriate to use such a repository for that?"