Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Well, if you are looking for a public-private partnership, you have it on the Inland Waterways Trust Fund."

"So you need for us to act to be able to use those funds."

"Well, is the first step for it to then-- if that application were to come in, is the step then for you to give a rule on whether or not it gets licensed or not?"

"I do not think there is a terrorist anywhere that could get into that building that they have got that houses those redundant steps."