Lamar Alexander

At a time of 10 percent unemployment, utility bills going up, manufacturing jobs going overseas...

It is going to make it harder for Americans to support their families.

I have no problem with the problem. My problem is with the solution.

I have an uneasy feeling, only ten months into this new administration, that we're beginning to see the symptoms of the same kind of animus developing in the Obama administration. And as those of us who served in the Nixon administration…

I knew Republicans were doing better, but I didn't know it had come this far.

I didn't ask them their politics, I didn't ask them how they felt about issues.

Pediatricians tell me, I had a hearing at Maharry University last October and they talked about how many of these adult diseases, especially Type 2 diabetes, sometimes heart disease, other chronic illnesses the pediatricians are seeing in…

Well, does that mean we can't take kids to the Natural History Museum, because President Teddy Roosevelt skinned all the animals and used formaldehyde and put them there?

But there is some evidence that mercury comes out of coal-fired power plants and doesn't blow very far, and so it affects adults and children near the power plants.

So I am interested in both those issues that the Chairman has mentioned, one being practical steps toward obesity; and two being practical steps to go ahead and clean up the air of sulfur, nitrogen and mercury so that we have healthier…

I know that in Tennessee, the estimates are we have a million children, which is most of our children, who are at risk for asthma.

We talk a lot about carbon around here, and I believe carbon is a problem, and we need to deal with it, but we know what to do about sulfur, nitrogen and mercury.

One of the most remarkable statements that I have heard in the last few years is the statement by distinguished journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine or the Institute of Medicine, the Trust for America's Health, others, who…

Thanks, Madam Chairman.

This is to enable me to attend, the school of their choice.

Oh, no. It is a very useful exercise.

I thought Senator Durbin's line of questioning about accreditation was worth pursuing.

This is a very interesting testimony.

Maybe we ought to change that and say that we think that accreditation is not optional for private schools.

But, no, you're not required to be accredited.

I think that's a line of inquiry I'd like to hear more about today.

Chancellor Rhee, who says she'd like to continue this three-pronged approach for 5 years.

I appreciate the way you conducted the last hearing, you and Senator Collins.

The D.C. voucher program has proven to be the most effective education policy evaluated by the Federal Government's official education research arm, so far.

I think it would be very reasonable.