Richard Shelby

It seems to me that this is a black hole; in other words, we keep pumping billions of dollars into AIG.

We will have to do that to have a real market economy, will we not?

A review of the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, reveals a record that is mixed at best.

As Senator Dodd indicated, I think we will be spending a lot of time together in the next year or so.

I will support your nomination.

We look forward to this year working on the Banking Committee.

I want to say a special word here about Peter Rogoff.

What precautions were taken to ensure that the renditions and any interrogations that were going on... complied with the law?

Will you do that, just for the record?

Could you say here today that the top priority of your office as the Attorney General of the United States would be to protect the American people from terrorist activity at any cost?

But I believe that a lot of this responsibility lies with the Justice Department.

Do you believe you have that?

This interrogation, rendition of terrorists had been going on before the Bush administration.

Are you going to be assertive in this area to make sure that the expertise of Justice is shared and used in this area?

As a result of this lack of cooperation, according to the Government Accountability Office, our Government's war on drugs is not as productive as it should be.

Does the Department have a legislative plan regarding these expiring provisions of the Adam Walsh Act, which I think and others thought was a good piece of legislation?

The very idea of taking money from victims and law enforcement officers to educate and comfort terrorists, pedophiles, and career criminals I think is an abomination.

Thank you, Madam Chairman.

If this is not a wake-up call, I don't know what could be; do you?

This could be a real, real problem to all of us; could it not?

It seems to me, although I've always supported and will support this supplemental with money and help, that the government and the army has lost the will, or seems to have lost the will to fight even for their own country.

A lot of us were alarmed when it was discovered that the Census had plans for using ACORN as a partner in the 2010 census.

You are not going to delegate it, in other words.

A lot of us feel that the Census Bureau should not partner with organizations that have shown systemic problems with both accuracy and legitimacy.

We have worked extremely well together on this subcommittee sharing many of the same goals and expectations.