Shelby Was For The Private Sector Before He Was Against It

Senator Shelby response to State of the Union, January 27 2010
“Our focus must be on jumpstarting the economy and creating jobs through policies that spur economic growth in the private sector. The path to economic recovery and sustained growth runs through the private sector, not the federal government.”
Shelby: NASA Budget Begins Death March for U.S. Human Space Flight
“We cannot continue to coddle the dreams of rocket hobbyists and so-called ‘commercial’ providers who claim the future of US human space flight can be achieved faster and cheaper than Constellation. I have consistently stated the fallacy of believing the cure-all hype of these ‘commercial’ space companies, and my position has been supported time and again by both the experts and the facts.”
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