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
He passed the buck to no one. He accepted it in the mold of President Truman. He admitted a lot. He admitted that no one was prepared. And that means the federal government, the state and the local governments. He was very, very honest, upfront. I think this is a new beginning.
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,
A sizable portion of properties continue to receive insurance rates that are far from actuarially sound,
Following Hurricane Katrina, state Medicaid agencies, including Alabama's, have been significantly strained as they work to meet the needs of residents and evacuees from other areas, ... This legislation is important as it provides the much-needed federal assistance for hurricane-affected states.
I share the president's commitment to bolstering the American economy, and I support his plan for targeted tax relief.
I would like to know how it could take us 10 years, dozens of lives, numerous lawsuits, substantial consumer complaints, tire replacements overseas and repeated expressions of concern by an insurance company before any action was taken to initiate an investigation into the safety of a product being used by millions of American families. Simply put - the American people deserve better.
I think they're beginning to ... but they waited a long time. They could have done more immediately, ... Meet the Press.
Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.
Let's follow the money, ... If we follow the money, we're going to get to the truth, and I think the truth will not be very nice.
The fact you might capture part of the king's bodyguard doesn't mean you've got the king.
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.
The same thing at the CIA and the FBI,
I'm going to do whatever I can to help, ... Selma is going to really shine.
I can tell you that at the end of the day, we're going to have to make some tough decisions.