Richard Shelby

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The subcommittee now stands in recess until Thursday, March 3, at 10:30 a.m., when we will take the testimony of Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.

Counterterrorism is a top priority for this subcommittee, and the work TEDAC conducts is critical given that I.E.D.'s are still prevalent and dangerous tools used by terrorists at home and abroad.

Do you believe that municipalities in this country, cities, that refuse to cooperate with the Federal immigration laws should be allowed to receive Federal law enforcement grant funding of any kind?

I do not believe that your department is addressing this, or the administration.

Have you advised the President on using executive actions to close the Guantanamo prison and transfer terrorist detainees to American soil, despite the law?

I find it hard to believe that the President could spotlight his commitment to reducing gun violence in America when his administration is granting clemency petitions for criminals convicted of gun crimes.

I continue to have significant reservations about the potential abuses and harassment of law-abiding gun owners and purchasers.

Do you personally believe--you are the chief law enforcement officer of the country--that noncitizens should be allowed to vote in U.S. elections, although they are not American citizens?

That is the law right now, isn't it?

Since President Obama took office, Congress has consistently, on a bipartisan basis, prohibited the closure of the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay through multiple pieces of legislation.

I expressed to you at our hearing in January my apprehension about the President's Clemency Initiative.

These exercises reassure our allies and contribute to the deterrence of Russia by demonstrating U.S. commitment to NATO.

If we shortchange our aviation, Army aviation, that would cripple ultimately the Army's ability to project force, would it not?

The Army will also assure U.S. allies in Europe by increasing its presence to a full-time ABCT through rotational units and other enablers.

It has also been said that North Korea is committed to developing a long range nuclear armed missile that is capable of posing a direct threat to the United States.

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

I believe the Fed should be independent, but I do not think that you are totally independent.

You want to strengthen it. Is that your basic premise?

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

So talk to me about what needs to be done at the Fed and elsewhere to address long-term unemployment and to foster policies that transform economic growth into growth for hardworking families.

Madam Chair, we have talked about this privately before, but does the Fed still use the Phillips rule in a lot of its deliberations?

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.

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

Without the Russian engine right now, there could be a gap, as I mentioned, in national security working with our Air Force, everything else. Could it be?