Richard Shelby actually said...

"Isn't that a dicey thing to do? Do you know of any community in the United States of America that would welcome terrorists, former terrorists, would-be terrorists, people trained as terrorists that ha..."

"Could you say here today that the top priority of your office as the Attorney General of the United States would be to protect the American people from terrorist activity at any cost?"

"But I believe that a lot of this responsibility lies with the Justice Department."

"But we would like to know for the record because we fund all these things."