Richard Shelby actually said...

"What will take you out of low-Earth orbit? SLS?"

"I wish we could find more money for all of our programs. We are in tough budget times, as you well know."

"one of the reasons that we request cooler heads prevail, if we were to pull out, then there is no more of the type of operations that go on, on the International Space Station today."

"Should we or the Russians choose to pull out, the International Space Station as we know it no longer exists."