Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby
Richard Craig Shelbyis the senior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he is the Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Shelby received his law degree from the Birmingham School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated in 1961. After law school, he went on to serve as city prosecutor. During this period he worked as a U.S. Magistrate for the Northern District of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 May 1934
CountryUnited States of America
shows that the FBI and the other agencies of the intelligence community must remain vigilant.
Mister Secretary, you should be here today, of all people,
Mr. Pollard committed very serious crimes against the United States, and it is appropriate that he be punished for them,
Let's hope the area will be calm. But we're all concerned,
because they all go into the mix of the economy.
I have been confident that the committee would dismiss this matter, and I was pleased to learn of their decision to do just that,
I have met Scott Ritter before and I think he's an idealist. I think he wants to believe that everybody's good and the world's going to be safe. But I don't believe there's any real credence to his statements. It looks to me like he's over there courting Saddam Hussein at the wrong time at the wrong place.
We must also look for ways to reduce mandatory spending which comprises more than two-thirds of the federal budget.
We all have the concerns that we need to spend more and more money at home helping our own people.
We knew that it was going to be a lot of money and it was going to take a lot of time,
We don't need another nuclear power -- not with Iran sponsoring terrorism that it has in the past. The fact that they are seemingly pursuing an avenue to build nuclear weapons should be disturbing to everybody.
Does it concern you that Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford, I believe, concealed a lot of this information rather than tell the public?
That's a dicey proposition right now. I don't know how you can create a Palestinian state at the moment with all of the violence that's going on, all of the terrorist attacks,
It's a sad day for security, ... What is it going to take?