Lamar Alexander

I don't want it to obscure some of the things that TVA has been doing lately that I applaud.

We might be able to electrify as much as half our fleet over the next 20 years.

In the spirit of turning this from an environmental disaster into a long-term technology opportunity, I want to ask you...

If I am not mistaken, TVA has recently asked or said it would ask for 2,000 megawatts of renewable energy.

We are going to have to clean up the coal.

I am very excited about President-elect Obama's emphasis on electric cars and trucks.

Senators, I beg you to take a look at this, because this is why the community is so up in arms.

It has said that it wants to find a way to, within a few years, to install conservation and efficiency provisions.

I think we are unanimous that what should happen, TVA should cleanup this mess, make whole the people who were hurt, clean it up quickly and do everything possible to make sure it doesn't happen again in the TVA region.

We all know that would be a disaster for energy security, for jobs, and for the health of our economy.

We must find out why this wall failed. Because to clean this up, Senators, makes $25 million just look like pennies.

I will work with my colleagues and I know they feel the same.

If we don't develop this technology, who will?

I think you could understand some of the skepticism around the table about the administration's goals when it comes to nuclear and coal.

I was Education Secretary when the direct loan program started. I didn't think it was a good idea then and I don't today.

The Republican Leader has said he is ready to go to work on that, starting with Social Security and then I believe we should do health care this year.

I am one Senator who wants to deal with climate change and have introduced legislation that would put a cap and trade system only on power plants.

I think the entitlement issue, though, is more of a process problem than a policy problem. We have got to find a way to force ourselves to deal with restraining growth in such important programs.

My instinct is this, that if you are going to try to restrain a system that is growing at a rate as big as the medical system in this country is, taking 18 percent of GDP, that is such a big change that we can't just restrain it. First, we…

I asked to rejoin the committee so that I could support the Conrad-Gregg effort to find some process by which we could restrain spending on entitlements in the future.

With gasoline rising above $4 per gallon and oil selling for more than $140 per barrel, I believe the best way for Congress to lower gasoline prices is a strategy based on these four words: 'find more, use less.'

The President, in his inaugural address, talked about power from the earth, the wind, and the sun.

I thought the President's rumored proposal today of capping greenhouse gases from tailpipes by a low-carbon fuel standard was a good idea.

I like your hubs. I think that's exactly the way to go about these grand challenges.

I think we should talk about what kind of Country do we want to have, what are our needs, what do we need to do.