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Richard Shelby

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Richard Shelby is a former United States Senator from Alabama, serving from January 3, 1987, until January 3, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Shelby was known for his work on various committees, including Appropriations and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Throughout his tenure, he focused on issues such as military funding, economic development, and infrastructure improvements in Alabama.

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Mar 19, 2012

A lot of people warned that it would create a TARP II bailout.

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Mar 19, 2012

$68 billion. So that is a long way from being a break-even place, isn't it?

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Mar 19, 2012

A recent Treasury report dispute this notion, stating that it is not a TARP program.

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Mar 13, 2012

I have several concerns about the cost per student, program performance evaluations, and employment outcomes over the life of a Job Corps participant.

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Mar 13, 2012

Do you understand that these rules, as we understand it, and they are being implemented, will kill American jobs, not create them?

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Mar 13, 2012

What we want to do is create jobs, sustain jobs, isn't it?

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Mar 13, 2012

If these groups were counted, the real unemployment rate would be 14.9 percent.

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Mar 13, 2012

Don't forget a balanced approach.

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Mar 13, 2012

Our Nation continues to face an unemployment rate more than 8 percent, the longest stretch of high unemployment in this Nation since the Great Depression.

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Mar 13, 2012

Well, there should be fairness, and people ought to go by the law. And you have to root out fraud and everything else.

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Mar 13, 2012

These rules, I believe, are clearly not meant to reform the program but, some people believe, to shutter it.

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