Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"I hope that the Committee unanimously reports them out, and I hope that we can confirm them expeditiously."

"It is time to retire the space shuttle, and the President provides for that at the end of calendar 2010."

"We cannot reinvent NASA every 4 years. Every new President can't have a new NASA agenda."

"When she said it, actually, I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, she is so right.'"