10/12/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"This budget could have been an opportunity, I believe, for NASA to boldly support human exploration after years of budget requests, in which I believe it was short changed."
"It is my understanding that in the Commercial Crew Program, NASA initially decided to spread, General, the limited funding resources across five companies."
"The space station was never constructed to be there in perpetuity, was it?"
"Instead, NASA's budget cuts funding to Orion and the Space Launch System, or SLS, limit our reach in human exploration."