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 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,
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.
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.
The fact you might capture part of the king's bodyguard doesn't mean you've got the king.
Throughout the life of this investigation, I have taken the position that I never knowingly disclosed any classified information. My position has not changed,