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
There will be a continuous talk, but I think as far as passing legislation, I don't see it coming this year.
The reports are all preliminary, but we hope to know more in the next few hours, ... They didn't totally connect it, but they didn't rule it out.
It is overreaching, bureaucratic nonsense like this that makes people distrust and resent government,
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,
Throughout the life of this investigation, I have taken the position that I never knowingly disclosed any classified information. My position has not changed,
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,
We believe we have crafted a bill that reflects the priorities of the committee as well as those of the entire Senate,
I subscribe entirely and wholeheartedly to that dual mandate, ... I do not subscribe to any rigid or mechanical rule in policy making.
I plan to work with the Senate leadership and my colleagues to develop a comprehensive approach to address and ultimately pay for this reconstruction effort. I am willing to do my part, but it is essential that we all reexamine and reprioritize our spending as a result of this natural disaster.
If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.
If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, (you) have to do it in a cautious, gradual way,
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.