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      <excerpt>...and our people can't know eventually about what's going on in the Federal Reserve,&quot; Paul said.  In the Senate, Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, top Republican on the Senate's banking panel, sharply criticized Dodd's proposed legislation.  &quot;It significant</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...wouldn't close gaps that led to the crisis. &quot;Unfortunately, the Dodd bill does not end 'too big to fail,' &quot; said Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the committee's top Republican. &quot;It significantly expands the federal government's ability to bail out not o</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...vs R vote. And, in today's environment, a tough break-em-up law may gather conservative Republican support, say from Sen.&#160;Richard Shelby, R-Ala., who had the foresight to vote against the Gramm-Leach Act that repealed old limits on banks playing Wall S</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...by then. So any resource that went into updating [the Corps manuals] based on that ruling won&#8217;t be helpful any more.&#8221; Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) issued a statement about the Corps decision Wednesday. &#8220;For too long, the Corps of Engineers ignored</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...senators joined Inhofe and Boxer in signing the letter: Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Max Baucus (DMont), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas). For Boxer and Inhofe the transportation bill offers an opportunity </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...if a strong case is made that the bill will hurt the financial industry, particularly neighborhood banks. Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the banking committee, said he was open to negotiating the proposal with Democrats but couldn</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Dodd and Banking ranking member Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), along with Treasury Department officials, have been in negotiations over the substance of the financial reg</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Position: A fifth-generation Alabamian and University of Alabama alumnus, state loyalty flows through Shelbys crimson blood. So do conservative politics.&#160;Party loyalty is another matter. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat, Shelby, a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...from investment banking was repealed. Congressman Blunt and Sen. Bond both voted for repeal. Conservative Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala) was one of only eight senators voting against repeal (Shelby is currently the ranking Republican on the Finance Committ</excerpt>
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