Richard Shelby

The most significant thing many of us will do while serving in the U.S. Senate.

In other words, easy to get in, hard to get out.

What I deem conflicts of interest, the Federal Government is now the principal labor, environmental, and safety regulator...

We, the taxpayer, the government, is in big time.

Getting out of the automobile industry by the U.S. Government yesterday would not be soon enough for me.

If I could answer that, there is a HUD investigation going on, as I understand it from staff, dealing with the RESPA and some of the companies.

I believe that once finalized, they will result in the savings of thousands of American jobs.

When the Detroit Three came before this Committee to ask U.S. taxpayers for bailout money, they cited the financial crisis as the reason for their troubles.

It is for these reasons that President Bush and later President Obama marshaled the resources of our government.

I think that we ought to, where there is a HUD investigation involved... we ought to have a clean bill of health from the man before I vote on him.

Failure of any one of Detroit's Big Three poses obviously, I believe, a grave systemic risk to the economy.

We're indebted to them for the sacrifices they make to protect our country.

Thank you for the job you're doing as the leader of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

We are all concerned about jobs in the United States.

I have concerns with this acquisition method because it clearly would not reach everyone's stated objective, that is, that the Air Force procures the best tanker for our warfighters.

If the Treasury stumbles in dismantling its facilities, there is a great risk of sparking another and potentially more severe crisis.

I think it is crucial that we terminate this program as quickly as possible.

I believe the failures in both design and execution have wasted taxpayer funds and done little to address the problems in our financial markets.

The TARP program should ultimately be terminated.

The government has no desire to be a day-to-day manager of those companies.

What is your view, if you have one at the moment, of how the Treasury...should manage its investments in GM and Chrysler?

What assurances have you been given from Secretary Geithner and the White House that you will have sufficient autonomy in your decision making?

Well, I appreciate this. I know you have to start in the lab, but then you've got to move from the lab to the clinics to prove what's going on. So we have to have both, do we not?

I support additional funding for NIH research, but in particular, I would like to emphasize today the importance of accelerating research in the area of Cystic Fibrosis (CF).

We must continue to work towards the goal of increasing the overall Federal investment in basic research and development.