Richard Shelby actually said...

"Instead, NASA's budget cuts funding to Orion and the Space Launch System, or SLS, limit our reach in human exploration."

"Will they meet their obligations?"

"We are also moving to another stage, past the Hubble, because of what we found in the use of having the Hubble."

"It is incumbent upon this subcommittee, as Senator Mikulski has said many times, that we are accountable to the American people and to our colleagues, and you are accountable to us."