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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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May 16, 2017

There has to be a combination of other things. But there is so much more money in the private sector, if we figure out a way to leverage it up here.

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May 16, 2017

We have to address our infrastructure inadequacies.

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May 15, 2017

Do you believe that the CFIUS statute as now written, which we were all involved in on this Committee, is sufficient for your work?

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May 15, 2017

How do you balance that with the concerns of not exporting things that are so important to our national security with ordinary commerce?

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May 15, 2017

And they are thinking in tomorrow's world through the Internet and everything that goes with it.

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May 15, 2017

The terrorists are very resourceful and very smart in a lot of ways, are they not?

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May 8, 2017

It will hurt our trade overall, will it not?

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May 2, 2017

We cannot rely on, Dr. Roper as you mentioned, yesterday's weapons.

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May 2, 2017

So they have a lot of promise, perhaps, dealing in space if we ever had a conflict dealing with space.

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May 2, 2017

But we cannot have a gap to occur in our reconnaissance and everything in our intelligence gathering, can we?

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May 2, 2017

Congress has directed the Department of Defense to transition from the use of the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines.

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