Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I appreciate the difficult financial environment."

"Our goal is not to eliminate surface mining of coal but to limit the practice of blowing off the top of a mountain and dumping the fill in streams."

"It will take strong national emission controls on coal plants for us to be able to meet your upcoming stricter local standards."

"The administration's proposal to cut State regulatory grants--a proposal that is based on the unsupported assumption that State permit fees can be quickly raised to fill the budget hole--is completely..."