David Vitter actually said...

And so, just to be clear, this concern of mine in terms of this trade-off isn't solved by the extra $3 billion?

Vitter questions whether increased funding resolves trade-offs in space program development.

09/15/2009

More David Vitter Quotes

I will fight, with every ounce of energy I have, to defeat this budget or anything like it, to fundamentally change it.

this budget, canceling every major internal human spaceflight program in sight--most obviously, Constellation--extends their gap, as I said,...

I believe this new budget is a big step backward, because of the, you know, fundamental problems I've tried to underscore.

This budget, as the Chairman very correctly noted, is a budget without a mission.