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.
I hope we could reserve the right to hold another hearing on this matter, if warranted.
I just want to thank Mr. Frost, too, for his incisive answers and his background and his experience of safety.
We have had hearings on that in the Banking Committee, and are working with the FBI and the Justice Department on that.
Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. And thank you, Attorney General Holder, for joining us to discuss the Department of Justice and its fiscal year 2011 budget request.
The FBI does keep America safe. It is an agency that is on the job 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
To abandon Ares I as a baseline vehicle for an alternative without demonstrated capability nor proven superiority, or even equivalence, is unwise and probably not cost-effective.
Senator Shelby and I want to stand very close sentry over anything that could be cost overruns where our budget is heading in the direction of a boondoggle.
I think the prudent financial circumstance is to stay with what we have got instead of plunging into the unknown.





