Richard Shelby actually said...

"You've got to have it, hadn't you?"

"Without even a nominee for Administrator, this administration has chosen to let their budget proposal be the face of NASA until a successful nominee is confirmed."

"This is a sizeable sum considering the funding constraints that the Federal Government faces, yet it still does not begin to provide enough for NASA to do all of the critical missions it has been aske..."

"Well, I appreciate this. I know you have to start in the lab, but then you've got to move from the lab to the clinics to prove what's going on. So we have to have both, do we not?"