Richard Shelby actually said...

"Well, you've got a lot in it, and it's finished. And I'd hope you would do that soon, because to activate it, it costs hardly anything, compared to what it cost to build."

"Also, you're aware that the community there, near Redstone, Huntsville, has the highest per capita Ph.D. communities in science and engineering."

"You plan to utilize that then."

"This administration, I believe, seems to think that NASA's job is to use taxpayer money as venture capital to support speculative commercial companies."