Kay Hutchison actually said...

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

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

"We're about to see the end of our Nation's ability to launch our own astronauts into space."

"it just seems to me that it would be very difficult to leave out both Houston and Florida."