Richard Shelby actually said...

"I was dismayed by the President's announcement on Tuesday of his plans to close the Guantanamo detention facility."

"publicly reporting a strategy helps prevent policymakers from bending under pressure and sacrificing independence."

"Instead of working to strengthen our economy and to bolster the financial system safeguards, some Republicans want to unleash the forces that almost destroyed the economy in the first place."

"the best way to weaken Dodd-Frank, and it is really kind of the dream of Wall Street to keep this slow walk going."