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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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Jul 9, 2014

we are against human trafficking for adults, children, everything like that.

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Jul 9, 2014

From past experience, we know that detention and rapid removal, following all appropriate due process, is an important deterrent to illegal crossing.

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Jul 9, 2014

Well, I know money, it is a humanitarian problem, but it is an immigration problem, a big one for this country.

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Jul 9, 2014

So even if we gave the money that has been requested here, $3.7 billion, it doesn't solve the problem in any way.

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Jul 9, 2014

We've spent billions of dollars on immigration enforcement, but to no avail.

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Jul 9, 2014

I believe that we must start with actually securing our border, which we have never done; enforcing our Nation's immigration laws, which we don't do; and definitively saying no to people who come here illegally.

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Jul 7, 2014

Is that because of the electronic growth, the use of electronics as we have seen a technological change?

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Jun 24, 2014

The Federal Government should not pick winners and losers in the market. Yet, that is exactly what a designation does; it chooses which firms are too-big-to-fail.

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Jun 24, 2014

Isn't it time--isn't it past time--for us to get past you looking at internally, even by an inspector general, and get a special prosecutor to restore the integrity of the IRS, whatever the cost, wherever it leads?

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Jun 24, 2014

Cooperation rather than collusion, right?

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Jun 24, 2014

You are not letting the international standards be our standards without a lot of thought, I hope.

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Jun 24, 2014

I think most people would think there has been a lot of interference by the IRS.

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