Richard Shelby actually said...

"The President's budget proposes to reward those failed commercial providers with an additional bailout."

"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."

"While the administration may have realized that its initial budget request was a failure, the new plan from the same team still ends this country's human space flight program."

"The President's new plan, like his old one, shows that NASA's leadership team still does not understand the issues at stake."