Lamar Alexander

But you would agree that the investment is only a beginning of the amount of money that we may need?

So, pay-go does not apply to the healthcare reform bill we are considering?

It would be important to know the details of the proposal and the cost of the proposal before we vote on the proposal and act on the proposal, if we are to take, show respect to the President's desire for pay-go and not adding to the…

But would you agree that it might be a good idea to see the details of the proposal and to hear from the Congressional Budget Office what the scoring might be before making a decision about going forward, in light of the President's…

If the President is going to write us a letter and say don't add to the deficit and give us a lecture about pay-go, shouldn't it apply to the healthcare reform bill, which is variously estimated between $1 to $2 trillion in new costs over…

That's a pretty good investment moving forward.

I am very encouraged by the administration's proposal to increase the Teacher Incentive Fund to $487.3 million this year, and I strongly support your request.

I do think he has an opportunity to leave a great legacy in that area.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to require the developers to put up a bond to take them down if they don't use them anymore?

In Tennessee, for example, Senator Alexander, there is a company, Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation, which has opened up a solar energy facility that is creating 500 jobs for the State of Tennessee.

Only to say to the Senator from North Dakota, we will take some of the elk.

Well, if 20 percent of our electricity is wind, that would take 130,000 wind turbines that are 50 stories tall, 2 megawatts each.

We very much hope you will be able to come to the Great Smoky Mountains 75th anniversary celebration in the fall.

We don't want to destroy the environment in the name of saving the environment.

I hope that is one of your legacies as Secretary of the Interior, and I would like to work with you on that.

I think what she describes in California is a good indicator of what we hope doesn't happen.

The President sent a letter to Senator Baucus and Senator Kennedy saying that, on June 2, saying that healthcare reform must not add to our deficit over the next 10 years.

My concern more is with the landscape.

I would like very much for us to have in this country as much renewable energy as we reasonably and appropriately can.

I completely agree with the chairman about fire. It is an essential part of the Forest Service program.

I think it is a preposterous idea to take land we have set aside for recreation and scenic and other uses and clutter it with eyesores that don't produce much electricity.

The very idea of coming and putting in 50-story towers with long transmission lines seems to me to be a preposterous notion.

This year we ask that you once again provide funding to programs we believe are crucial for maintaining healthy and abundant bird populations throughout the United States.

Is there any way to relate the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act in some way, so that we create goals for States or areas or regions, to try to make sure that as we clean up the air, we clean up the water as a result--as we work on…

There's one area I hope you don't act on, and that's on carbon, I think that's more appropriately left to the Congress.