Richard Shelby actually said...

"That's picking winners and losers, in a sense, in the marketplace, which is what we don't do."

"the idea of picking winners and losers in the marketplace, that's the tenet of communism, socialism, and so forth."

"The more we talk about that and the more we, in reality, do that, the better off we are."

"That seems like to a lot of people central planning. You're choosing 25 communities out of the whole Nation as favoritism, so to speak, and that's very dangerous, I think, and sounds like central plan..."