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
It leads you to ask the question: Was it politically expedient not to pursue information like this? Should it have been pursued in earlier years? Should it have been pursued before now? I'd say yes,
I believe that I have enough information -- that is, intelligence -- to make an informed decision this coming week on whether or not to support the president of the United States, ... Late Edition.
There was not anything in there that most of us on the committee didn't already know, ... I believe that this story that the president had strong information to act on -- that's a bogus story.
Does it concern you that Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford, I believe, concealed a lot of this information rather than tell the public?
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.
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,
shows that the FBI and the other agencies of the intelligence community must remain vigilant.
Mister Secretary, you should be here today, of all people,
Let's hope the area will be calm. But we're all concerned,
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.
There are thousands of these surface-to-air missiles around the world.
Mr. Pollard committed very serious crimes against the United States, and it is appropriate that he be punished for them,