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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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Apr 19, 2016

It could be a national security cost plus a physical cost, could it not?

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Apr 6, 2016

Your job is also to follow the law.

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Apr 6, 2016

If a drug is overpriced, it is not accessible to a consumer.

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Apr 6, 2016

Aggregate credit availability has been increasing recently, as you said.

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Apr 6, 2016

Your job is also to follow the law, is it not?

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Apr 6, 2016

After last year's significant increase in the National Institutes of Health, it's time to again make research funding a national priority.

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Apr 6, 2016

If you cannot find one egregious example where you can apply this, I would be surprised.

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Apr 6, 2016

The National Cancer Moonshot Initiative is an important opportunity to speed progress on childhood cancers.

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Apr 6, 2016

I believe strongly in the promise of medical research and what that medical research does for individuals and families and the economy and taxpayers.

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Apr 6, 2016

By 2050, according to figures from NIH, the cost to treat and care for those suffering from just Alzheimer's alone is anticipated to be $1.1 trillion of today's dollars.

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Apr 6, 2016

It's a risky decision. It's a decision that I don't support and hope that at the end of this process our committee will not look at what the administration has asked for, but look at what we would hope to be able to do.

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Apr 6, 2016

If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority, and the hard work of this committee, with really lots of talent on both sides of the aisle, is to figure out what we can do about those priorities.

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