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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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Oct 5, 2011

Forty-four of us have sent a letter that you are very familiar with to the President.

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Oct 5, 2011

Well, we would hope you would consider, you and the President, changing three modest things in the Dodd-Frank bill.

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Oct 5, 2011

When asked about the fee, the President stated, as I understand it, that the banks do not have a right to get a certain amount of profit.

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Oct 5, 2011

But you are basically saying this Administration is not in any way coming out for any type of wage and price controls of any kind?

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Oct 5, 2011

The report is largely a lengthy summary of statistics with lots of colorful graphs.

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Oct 5, 2011

I had hoped that the Council would have provided the information in their annual report. Unfortunately, the report fails to address these significant areas.

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Oct 5, 2011

Perhaps the most fundamental question left unanswered by the Council is: What is systemic risk?

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Sep 29, 2011

the Coalition of Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue thanks you for the opportunity to submit testimony regarding the fiscal year 2012 budget.

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Sep 21, 2011

There has been widespread criticism of a lot of those rules on grounds that they will undermine the competitiveness of the U.S. financial system without making it any safer.

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Sep 21, 2011

the one principle that I think should always drive how we think about this is protection of the U.S. taxpayers.

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Sep 21, 2011

Did it ever occur to you or Chairman Gensler... that you could possibly overregulate an economy or the derivatives market?

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