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Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is the senior U.S. Senator from Alabama. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he is the ranking member of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and was its chairman from 2003 to 2007. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Shelby received his law degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he went on to serve as city prosecutor (1963–1971). During this period he worked as a U.S. Magistrate for the Northern District of Alabama (1966–1970) and Special Assistant Attorney General of Alabama (1969–1971). He won a seat in the Alabama Senate in 1970. In 1978 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the 7th District, where he was among a group of conservative ...
Official site, including Alabama links, a biography of the state's senior Senator, legislative issues, committees, photos, news releases, audio statements. , positive
Sen. Shelby visited Macon County as he begins his 56th term in the Senate. He's joined by Alan Hanson, his Chief of Staff and attorney Fred Gray at the Tuskegee Municipal Complex. , positive
New campus organization for top Business students heads to nation's capitol.
EAE students met with Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby while in Washington. , positive
Tax-free financing for cities to rebuild, deductions for businesses that have to clean up their property, breaks for forest owners to replace trees, higher tax credits for college students, and incentives for employers to keep payroll going are some of the provisions in a wide-ranging disaster relief bill to be introduced today by Sen. Richard Shelby.
The legislation, a scaled-down version of tax relief packages passed after Hurricane Katrina and midwestern flooding in 2008, would apply to counties in the disaster areas declared between April 17 and June 7 in nine states: Alabama, Arkansas, ...
I don't like to personalize politics. But there's no avoiding it in this case. I'm on the other side of the Pacific for a while again, talking with various foreigners who have theories about "America's irreversible decline," the relentless shift of power to China, and so on. I don't agree, and I emphasize the tremendous resilience of the American system, the serious problems confronting China, and so on. But if I wanted to make a case that our system really has become pathologically trivializing and self-defeating -- and that our problems, theoretically correctable, may be beyond our powers to ...
ABC News' Jonathan Karl (@JonKarl) reports:One day after the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., doubled down on his resolve to block the appointment of the agency’s first leader.
“We fought it last year. We’re going to continue to fight it,” Shelby, a Republican, told ABC News' Jonathan Karl in the latest installment of the “Subway Series.”
“This puts so much power, too much power, in one person, and we should never have done that,” he said of the Dodd-Frank law, which created the agency and ...