EELV Option for Orion Emerging?

McCain hears pleas to extend shuttle and accelerate Constellation, Orlando Sentinel

“In one exchange with a top Lockheed Martin government relations executive, McCain pressed him for one solution to the gap. The executive, Adrian Lafitte, said increasing funding to speed the development of the new Ares rocket would be his top choice. Although, he and others pointed out alternatives that included funding a short-term solution using existing expendable rockets to launch NASA’s proposed Orion spacecraft.”