Senator Richard Shelby, ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, today issued the following statement,...

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) hasn’t changed his mind about NASA’s new direction, one that cancels Constellation and seeks to develop commercial systems to transport crews to and from low Earth orbit. He does realize, though, that he ...

Tensions have been simmering between two top Republicans in the Banking Committee since the senior member, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), backed out of talks with...

SHUTTING DOWN THE CONFIRMATION PROCESS (AGAIN).... About a month ago, Sen. Richard Shelby, a far-right Republican from Alabama, decided to place a blanket hold on all pending administration nominees, including officials related to n...

Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), a key Republican negotiator on the Banking Committee, said that the idea of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency with independent rule-making...

Sen. Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) has offered two alternatives for new consumer-protection powers within the government. These contrast with a plan floated late last week by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D., Conn....

ast week, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) rejoined talks on financial regulatory reform with Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). Dodd had been negotiating with Corker after reaching an earlier ...

SHELBY'S BLASE OBSTRUCTIONISM.... In a Congress when Republicans' obstructionist tactics have become scandalous, and a discredited GOP minority has effectively shut down the American policymaking process, Sen. Richard Shelby (R) of ...

Earlier this month, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) quietly and selfishly put a blanket hold on dozens and dozens of President Obama’s pending nominees in order to secure pork for his state. Some of the nominees who were caught in Shelby...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday offered one of his most aggressive defenses of the central bank’s role in the future of bank supervision in response to a question from Sen. Richard Shelby.

In a blow to Republican insistence that they have played a non-obstructionist role in slowing down the Democratic legislative agenda, one of the GOP's senior...

(CNN) – On Tuesday, CNN confirmed that Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, had lifted a majority of the holds that he had placed on President Barack Obama's nominations the Friday before. Obama referenced this issue during Tuesday's Whi...

ast week, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) said that he was going to go ahead and draft a financial regulatory reform bill without Republican support, after talks between him and ranking member Sen. Richard Shelby...

Chris Dodd is working with a Republican on financial regulatory reform, reports the Washington Post, but not with his counterpart, ranking member Richard Shelby. “After he and Shelby reached yet another impasse last week, Dodd threa...

Since Richard Shelby continues to hold several of Obama's military nominees hostages to his efforts to help France's Airbus win a lucrative contract, I thought we ought to meet the professionals whose service Shelby sees fit to disr...

Senate negotiators are at an impasse over the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, told the Huffington...

Last week, Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) announced that Democrats are going to go it alone on financial regulatory reform, as negotiations with the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), were a...

Remember this bit of mindless important obstructionism? Having proved his obstructionist important point, Sen. Richard Shelby is finally backing down… Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama will stop blocking Senate confirmation ...

Came across this sad piece of information:"Sen. Richard Shelby on Thursday placed a blanket hold on allof President Barack Obama's nominees before the Senate, according tothe office of Majority Leader Harry Reid."What this means is...

After five days, the Great Cotton State Cockblock of '10 has finally come to an end. Last night, Alabama senator Richard Shelby decided to release his vicelike grip on all but three of President Obama's more than 70 federal app...