Richard Shelby actually said...

"With your continued unwavering support, we will make pragmatic decisions on how to best balance our available resources between current commitments and future readiness requirements."

"The President's recent decision to send National Guard forces to the southwest border continues the trend of previous administrations to deploy Guardsmen to border security operations."

"I think it is important. And you seized on a couple of things a minute ago, and I think they are very important to any agency, and especially this agency--that is, accountability and transparency."

"we have had no oversight of this agency, have we?"