Richard Shelby: “The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

on Roy Blunt, I first met him when he was a whip in the House. We had some kind of conference going, and I thought: My gosh, he can count votes. He is the whip. He can count votes in the conference, too, and so forth. And then, when he…

I'm concerned, and I think I'm joined by a lot of others in the Senate and the House, about the impact inflation is having on the Army and the Navy and everything else.

With inflation at the highest levels we've seen in 40 years, the request represents a cut from the 2022 level.

We have got to get our arms, one, around the inflation first, and then try to boost our defense capabilities in a dangerous world.