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
We've got to finish the job. Otherwise, the damage that they did two years ago
We must also look for ways to reduce mandatory spending which comprises more than two-thirds of the federal budget.
The question is, 'Will he lead rather than follow?'
The process of what happened and how it happened was very troubling, and I think it tainted the whole situation.
There are thousands of these surface-to-air missiles around the world.
We had no specific warning of the United States being attacked, although people have alluded to that before,
Otherwise the taxpayer is going to ultimately underwrite everybody's risk,
I think that people are concerned about the ethical problems here,
I think the basic tenet that we learned is a lack of coordination and sharing of information, different cultures in the community of intelligence. We have done our job, and now we have got to do more legislatively and the people who run the intelligence community have got to do theirs.
I think what you will see as these hearings come on and information dribbles out is a failure, big time, in communication between the agencies, ... We have to do better.
Joel is the champion. I want to apologize to all the spellers. Seldom do we have these problems at the spelling bees.
I think it is working, but I don't think you could say it is working well -- not after such a glaring mistake.
He should step down, ... Face the Nation.
We must guard against what the world witnessed last week in London.