David Vitter actually said...

"the funding profile for the exploration program has been inadequate, and it would be virtually impossible to sustain under the flat line out-year funding profile"

"The President is going to have to set priorities of how do we not only keep some of them in work and able to get to the vision that I hope the President will articulate."

"If we are going to have a program, it is going to have to be the President who is going to have to put the juice to the program."

"You can say it until you are blue in the face. I can say it. Administrator Bolden can say it, but the American people are going to listen only to the President."