Richard Shelby actually said...

"I am not above the law and you are not above the law. Nobody should be, and that is what we preach, and that is what we believe."

"It is imperative, for economic reasons, that in the U.S.--not only deepen the port I am bringing up in Mobile, but others and widening them, whatever we have to do--to be in the 21st century of commer..."

"Its activities, as you probably well know, employ over 150,000 people in my State and generate over $23.4 billion direct and indirect in economic value."

"We have dire needs everywhere, everybody here today has a need for infrastructure."