Richard Shelby actually said...

"It seems like that's an ideal opportunity for academia to team with industry to bring treatments to patients faster."

"So while the bank crisis grew underneath their feet, they continued to sleep in a sense or look the other way."

"that is, it sits in the taxpayer's lap, like it is today, Fannie and Freddie--and privatize the profits. That is a dangerous situation, is it not?"

"It is like those kinds of loans were a recipe for a disaster."