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
It's very important that we bring credibility, which is integrity, to our capital markets. And we're going to have to do this by strengthening in a big way our accounting profession.
It leads you to ask the question: Was it politically expedient not to pursue information like this? Should it have been pursued in earlier years? Should it have been pursued before now? I'd say yes,
It is overreaching, bureaucratic nonsense like this that makes people distrust and resent government,
The process of what happened and how it happened was very troubling, and I think it tainted the whole situation.
We had no specific warning of the United States being attacked, although people have alluded to that before,
There are thousands of these surface-to-air missiles around the world.
We believe we have crafted a bill that reflects the priorities of the committee as well as those of the entire Senate,
We've got a meeting next week with the attorney general, and we're going to carry it all the way to the White House if we have to, because this inquiry has to be done,
Throughout the life of this investigation, I have taken the position that I never knowingly disclosed any classified information. My position has not changed,
The fact that they've waited this long to get it out is troubling,
The question is, 'Will he lead rather than follow?'
A sizable portion of properties continue to receive insurance rates that are far from actuarially sound,
All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.
There was not anything in there that most of us on the committee didn't already know, ... I believe that this story that the president had strong information to act on -- that's a bogus story.