Lamar Alexander actually said...

"The most important legislation in the committee that Senator Murray and I chair is our biomedical innovation legislation."

"Some of us here in the Senate are in the results business, and a lot of us are on this committee."

"If I may interrupt, if you did it that way, let's say we had a 5-year surge to help launch Precision Medicine, we would not have to spend the same amount every year."

"I would guess that the idea of underfunding the inland waterways and the Harbor Maintenance Account did not come from the Army Corps of Engineers, but probably came from the budget process."