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."

"Are you still on track to finish the facility under the $6.5 billion cost cap?"

"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?"