Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Well, just to boil it down, are you going to be processing fewer pits than you otherwise would have, otherwise were planning?"

"Well, there's a competition going on for management of the Y12 project. And it's possible, it seems to me, that that competition could divert energy that ought to be directed toward keeping the projec..."

"Well, it seems to me, Madam Chairman, isn't the idea that the research and development (R&D) project is ready to be demonstrated for 2 years."

"it seems to me that, using good Navy procedure, that there ought to be a single person accountable to Senator Feinstein and to me for an on-time, on-budget project and that ought to be you."