Richard Shelby actually said...

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 ...

I'm not convinced that all of the satellite projects that the Department is focused on are truly necessary to the core mission of NOAA.