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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WBRC-TV MyFoxAL.com) -- Alabama's two U.S. Senators don't seem overly optimistic about a revived bailout plan that is scheduled for a vote Wednesday night. A spokesman for Alabama Senator Richard Shelby tells FOX6 News he's reviewing the final language for the bill. Shelby has been a vocal opponent of the President's bailout plan. A spokeswoman in Senator Jeff Sessions office says as it stood Wednesday morning Sessions would likely vote against the bill. Congressional leaders from both parties said they are hopeful that a $700 billion financial industry bailout that derailed in the House is back on track...

When a high-ranking U.S. senator sounds more like Karl Marx than Adam Smith over the issue of energy prices, it must be an election year. Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, appeared on CNBC’s June 10 “Squawk Box” pushing government control of corporate profits. Dodd said he considered a company to be “doing very, very well” with profits above $8 or $10 per barrel of oil. He said he advocated a windfall profits tax, where Congress would determine what amount of profit is fair and what isn’t. Co-host Joe Kernan called the Connecticut senator on...

A C-130 aircraft carrying an Alabama senator and congressman was fired on this evening as it was flying from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan. The airplane was carrying Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Huntsville, and two other senators. Three rockets were shot at the plane and were "near misses," Shelby said in a telephone interview. He said the pilot took evasive maneuvers to avoid the rockets. The plane landed safely in Amman at about 4 p.m. central.

Alabama Senator Richard Shelby doesn't mince words on Democrats not funding the troops, the Army banning mil-bloggers and George Tenet's new book. HH: But first, we celebrate the fact that the Congress has failed to override the President’s veto of the pork-laden attempt to micromanage the war into a date certain defeat. I’m joined by Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama. Senator, good to have you on the program. Are you with me, Senator? RS: Yeah, I’m with you. HH: Okay, good to talk with you there, sir. Senator Shelby, before we get to the future of this bill, you’re on...

The United States should conduct military strikes against Hezbollah and Hamas facilities in the Middle East before engaging in any military action against Iraq, the leaders of an influential US Senate committee demanded Sunday. Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham and his Republican counterpart, Richard Shelby, made their recommendation amid increasing concern among member of the US intelligence community that if faced with certain downfall, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could hand over weapons of mass destruction to regional terrorist groups. "Against those international terrorists such as Hezbollah and Hamas, we need to be launching attacks on their headquarters and...

Saudi Arabia must do a better job at ferreting out major individual donors who continue to fund terrorism abroad, including in Iraq, a top U.S. Treasury official said on Tuesday. Stuart Levey, the Treasury's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Saudi Arabia had made significant strides in counterterrorism efforts in recent years and that the kingdom was "doing an excellent job" fighting operatives of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network at home. But he told a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee that concerns remained, including the existence of so-called "deep-pocket donors" and the abuse of charities to fund...

...Americans had good reason for not wanting the cost of private precautions against terrorism to become a giant tax on the economy out of rational proportion to the threat. See what this has done in the sad exceptional case of the airlines: Security hassles have made flying even more of a drag while piling up costly overhead on struggling carriers. But the last thing we need is to subsidize a similar indifference to natural disasters.... You would be rightly surprised to learn that normally disputatious climate scientists are in considerable agreement about the growing destructiveness of hurricanes seen over the...

WASHINGTON - A Washington attorney who represented President Clinton at his impeachment trial and has a long association with Democrats will defend Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., against ethics charges that he leaked classified information to the media. Gregory Craig, a partner at Williams & Connolly, will represent Shelby in an expected investigation by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, Craig's office confirmed Wednesday. Craig and Shelby's spokeswoman, Virginia Davis, both declined to comment on the case.

WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Richard Shelby (R.-Ala.) accused federal law enforcement officials of abuse Thursday after a newspaper reported that federal investigators had concluded he leaked to the media classified messages from the eve of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources familiar with the investigation, reported that the Alabama Republican's role had been confirmed to FBI investigators by Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron. Cameron denied that. The newspaper said the alleged leak was from a June 19, 2002, interview, following a classified briefing to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. At the time Shelby was...

Investigators Concluded Shelby Leaked Message Justice Dept. Declined To Prosecute CaseBy Allan Lengel and Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, August 5, 2004; Page A17 Federal investigators concluded that Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) divulged classified intercepted messages to the media when he was on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, according to sources familiar with the probe. Specifically, Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron confirmed to FBI investigators that Shelby verbally divulged the information to him during a June 19, 2002, interview, minutes after Shelby's committee had been given the information in a classified briefing, according to...

Investigators Concluded Shelby Leaked Message Justice Dept. Declined To Prosecute Case By Allan Lengel and Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, August 5, 2004; Page A17 Federal investigators concluded that Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) divulged classified intercepted messages to the media when he was on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, according to sources familiar with the probe. Specifically, Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron confirmed to FBI investigators that Shelby verbally divulged the information to him during a June 19, 2002, interview, minutes after Shelby's committee had been given the information in a classified briefing, according...

Ala. Senator Shelby Leaked Classified Info To FOX NEWS, Feds Say... MORE... Shelby 'divulged classified intercepted messages to the media when he was on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence'... WASH POST reporting Thursday: 'Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron confirmed to FBI investigators that Shelby verbally divulged the information to him during a June 19, 2002, interview, minutes after Shelby's committee had been given the information in a classified briefing'... Developing...

A former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that he has personally confirmed that the government of Sudan offered to arrest Osama bin Laden in 1996 and turn him over to the Clinton administration - revealing for the first time that the Sudanese were also willing to "assassinate" the notorious terror mastermind if necessary. "I'm privy to some information on this," Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told MSNBC's Chris Matthews. "I've been to Sudan. And I was in Khartoum and met with some of the higher-ranking people with the Sudanese government. They told me personally -- I had heard...

Sen. Shelby Probe Referred to Ethics Panel Sunday July 25, 2004 3:46 AM AP Photo NY114 By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has referred to the Senate Ethics Committee an investigation into whether Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama or his staff leaked classified information, indicating that criminal charges are highly unlikely, a federal law enforcement official said Saturday. The referral Thursday means that it is now up to the ethics panel to decide if any action is warranted against Shelby, a Republican who was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time...

I only heard a snippet of this on Keith Olbermann in the background. He said another figure is under criminal investigation in Washington. Then he divulged that that figure is Republican Senator Richard Shelby. Something about not turning over some correspondence the day before 9/11 that tomorrow would be "the day" or something like that.

Jan. 28, 2004--Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a non-profit legal watchdog group, sent a letter to President Bush asking that he call upon the White House Counsel to investigate Vice President Cheney's confirmation of leaked classified information in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News on January 9, 2004. Federal law prohibits leaking classified information. Confirming information that has already been leaked is also prohibited. In his Jan. 9th interview, Mr. Cheney referred his interviewer to a story that appeared in The Weekly Standard's November 24, 2003 issue. The story, written by Stephen F. Hayes, discussed...

A stealth stake through the left's heart Posted: February 19, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com "The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior ... In all the other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make"– United States Constitution, Article III, Sections 1 and 2. That piercing scream you'll hear any day now is the leftist juggernaut in America being neutered without the blessings of anesthetic. The left, it appears, has been too...

<p>ATLANTA — Sen. Richard Shelby and Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama have introduced bills in the Senate and House that would define public religious displays as constitutional rights not subject to review by federal courts.</p> <p>"If a judge did not act appropriately then, of course, impeachment would be one of the options that the Congress could consider," Aderholt told Fox News.</p>

------------------------------------------------------ NBC Meet The Press ------------------------------------------------------ 'MEET THE PRESS WITH TIM RUSSERT' Sunday Listings Paul Wolfowitz, Bob Graham, Porter Goss, Richard Shelby, Nancy Pelosi To Appear as Guests on "Meet the Press" Sunday, July 27, 2003 Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense will appear on this Sunday's edition of "Meet the Press with Tim Russert" to discuss his recent trip to Iraq, the search for weapons of mass destruction, and the hunt for Saddam Hussein. Then, in an exclusive interview, all four leaders of the Joint Intelligence Committee's inquiry into the Sept. 11th attacks will come together to discuss...

WHY THE FLAT TAX IS A GOOD IDEA By: Senator Richard Shelby In May of this year, Congress passed a $330 billion tax cut. I strongly supported this initiative, and in fact, I would have preferred an even more robust tax cut. During the tax debate, I also introduced legislation that would change our current taxpaying system, but in an entirely different way - it’s called the flat tax. Flat tax legislation would repeal the current Internal Revenue Code and replace it with a flat tax rate that would apply to all taxpayers. This means that all taxpayers would be...

WASHINGTON, D. C.--- U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) introduced S. 1040, the "Freedom and Fairness Restoration Act of 2003." This bill would repeal the current Internal Revenue Code and replace it with a flat tax rate that would apply to all taxpayers. Like President Bush’s plan, S.1040 eliminates the double taxation of dividends, but it goes further by creating a single tax rate for all taxpayers – seventeen percent when the tax is fully implemented. The legislation would also eliminate the many marginal rates, all itemized deductions and credits, the alternative minimum tax, and the taxation of Social Security benefits....

ITCHING FOR A SWITCH Democratic senators and the Democratic National Committee have been telling Capitol Hill reporters that they expect Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby to switch parties if the Senate remains in Democratic hands after the mid-term elections. "He's fed up with Bush and the Republican bungling in the Senate," says a Democratic leadership staffer, who claims that the party leadership has met with Shelby on the subject of jumping back to the party in which he was originally elected to the Senate. Shelby switched to the GOP after its big congressional wins in 1994. "There is absolutely no...