“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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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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Sep 22, 2010

What is your judgment today on the financial condition of FHA? For the record here and before this Committee.

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Sep 22, 2010

Can you do this in the next month or so? You should be able to do that.

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Sep 22, 2010

I think we all should have a concern about FHA.

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Sep 21, 2010

this program is broken, it is not actuarially sound? It is not going to be actuarially sound unless we do massive reforms starting with mapping and getting into something that is actuarially sound.

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Sep 21, 2010

This concern is clearly not partisan, nor is it novel.

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Sep 21, 2010

Well, any way you look at it, this is a colossal failure of the SEC.

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Sep 21, 2010

The Stanford case... represents a major failure by the Securities and Exchange Commission in carrying out its investor protection mandate.

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Sep 21, 2010

I think a good point he made, that unlike the Madoff issue, here you actually had examiners.

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Sep 21, 2010

Mapping is the key to an overall sound actuarial program.

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Sep 21, 2010

This just looks like the SEC failed the investor, not once, not twice, but four times, big time.

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