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
Throughout the life of this investigation, I have taken the position that I never knowingly disclosed any classified information. My position has not changed,
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.
Otherwise the taxpayer is going to ultimately underwrite everybody's risk,
I think they're beginning to ... but they waited a long time. They could have done more immediately, ... Meet the Press.
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.
Most banks can sell your information-your balances, your address, your Social Security number-without your permission. That's violating your confidentiality. That's breaking your trust. I think it's important to change that, don't you?
Whether due to a lack of resources or other pressing priorities, mutual fund abuses simply did not receive adequate attention from the SEC,
I wish ... that the administration would agree to declassify a lot more of the report. Seventy percent -- or whatever the figure is -- is not enough. Probably you could go and declassify 90, 95 percent of it without any harm at all to national security. That would be my considered judgment.
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.
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.
The fact that they've waited this long to get it out is troubling,