Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Mr. Secretary, welcome. It is a pleasure to work with the Senator from California always, and it is a pleasure to work with you, Mr. Secretary."

"I want to make it an increasing priority to develop a plan to clean up the mercury."

"But in the end, we will have to have a fast reactor. Will we not?"

"We now need to go to work on mercury, and we have talked about that."