Richard Shelby actually said...

"When is this administration going to get the message that the Congress, I believe, is not willing to subsidize so-called commercial vendors at the expense of NASA's core mission of engineering and exp..."

"I'm very concerned that NASA seems to be abandoning its plan to abide by the Federal acquisition regulations (FAR) in the commercial crew program and instead continue to use Space Act agreements."

"You plan to utilize that then."

"This administration, I believe, seems to think that NASA's job is to use taxpayer money as venture capital to support speculative commercial companies."