Richard Shelby actually said...

"Are they using the IMF as a bailout of Europe?"

"Wouldn't you think they would be wanting to share this with the Senate Banking Committee?"

"During the past year, the European Union has been embroiled, as we all know, in a fiscal crisis brought on by years of reckless Government and budget deficits and sluggish economic growth."

"The focus of the crisis has been on the relatively small economy of Greece, but the European Union Governments fear that it could quickly spread across the continent."