Kay Hutchison actually said...

The NASA authorization bill allows NASA to modify any contract from the Constellation program.

Once the shuttles are retired, we will be reduced to buying seats on Russian vehicles for the foreseeable future.

We should not expect [the Russians] to shoulder their space program and ours, when we should be able to do it ourselves.

I just believe, so much, that our goal was a balanced approach for manned spaceflight...