Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Richard Shelby [R, AL]

Bennet joins with GOP to warn about Wall St. bill

2009-11-25T00:00:00Z

...bill wasn't amendable and that the committee needed to start over from scratch. The senior Republican on the panel, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said the bill "requires a complete rewrite," adding that "this committee has not done the necessary work to

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Community Bankers Voice Concern Over Risk Retention

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Ranking Member Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., focuses on new risk retention requirements proposed in the Restoring American Financial ...

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Acorn Housing Struggles to Hang On

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

But Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, has urged the Senate Banking Committee to hold its own "comprehensive investigation" of Acorn and Acorn ...

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Obama can use WTO to stop job theft

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

...defenders in Congress are pleading its case already. Lured by the hazy promise of a handful of local jobs, Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby erroneously claimed that the WTO ruled Airbus’ subsidies to be legal, a statement that U.S. Trade Representative Ron

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Bernanke To Defend Himself And Fed In Confirmation Hearing

2009-11-24T00:00:00Z

Speaking a week later when the full Banking Committee convened to make opening statements about Dodd's plan, Sen. Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the ...

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2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

... alone would result in a significant increase in litigation,” wrote Melancon in a letter to Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala. ...

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Reform Handed Setback

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

Though the Banking Committee is normally reserved and disputes are often resolved in private, Sen. Richard Shelby, the lead Republican on the panel, ...

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2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

Though the Banking Committee is normally reserved and disputes are often resolved in private, Sen. Richard Shelby, the lead Republican on the panel, ...

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Who wants tea with their turkey?

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

...voters were willing to embrace party-switchers, like Sen. Joe Lieberman. (They accepted several in 1994 and one, Sen. Richard Shelby, remains in the Senate.) One thing Republicans can do in the coming debate is support conservative amendments, in which

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Crunch time for Obama agenda

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee and the gop's leading banking expert in the upper chamber, ...

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Emissions bill up in the air

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

"We don't expect it to be placed on the calendar anytime soon," said Jonathan Graffeo, a spokesman for US Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa. ...

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2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

Several big dogs are opposing the plan, including US Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from Alabama who calls it a “radical departure from the way we ...

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2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa.Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, had little good to say Thursday about a sweeping financial system overhaul proposed by ...

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No Bondholder Left Behind

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

Alabama Republican Richard Shelby warns that these multiple paths for large firms to avoid bankruptcy "will undermine incentives for investors and ...

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Who wants tea with their turkey?

2009-11-23T00:00:00Z

Joe Lieberman. (They accepted several in 1994 and one, Sen. Richard Shelby, remains in the Senate.) But polls show grassroots Republicans think little of ...

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Committee sets fees for big firms, aims to rein in Fed

2009-11-21T00:00:00Z

...country and our people can't know eventually about what's going on in the Federal Reserve," Paul said.In the Senate, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate's banking panel, sharply criticized the legislation introduced by commi

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Senators Push to Restore Federal Highway Funds

2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

Three Republicans senators -- James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Richard Shelby of Alabama and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas -- signed the letter. ...

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PhillyDeals: 2 votes for Dodd's do-it-yourself bailouts

2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

And, they concede, a tough "Too Big to Fail/Systemic Risk" law could win over a few conservative Republican senators, such as Richard Shelby (R., Ala.). ...

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PhillyDeals: 2 votes for Dodd's do-it-yourself bailouts

2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

...they concede, a tough "Too Big to Fail/Systemic Risk" law could win over a few conservative Republican senators, such as Richard Shelby (R., Ala.). Shelby challenged the Gramm-Leach-Bliley deregulation law that let the biggest Main Street banks combine

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Left and Right Converging

2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the Republicans who are called “free-market fundamentalists,” like Congressman Ron Paul and Senator Richard Shelby, criticized the Paulson and ...

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