Richard Shelby actually said...

"The President's alternative plan does not provide significant advantages in cost, schedule, performance, or safety."

"This will certainly lead to price spikes at the Department of Defense for smaller tactical missiles."

"To abandon Ares I as a baseline vehicle for an alternative without demonstrated capability nor proven superiority, or even equivalence, is unwise and probably not cost-effective."

"The future of human space flight is being proposed to be given, as I understand it, to companies that have never launched humans before."