Richard Shelby News

WASHINGTON, DC, Thursday, July 9, 2009- U.S. Senator Richard Shelby , a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, today offered an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy, Water, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill during the full committee markup of the legislation.

Last week it appeared that Sen. Richard Shelby had convinced NASA and the White House to shift $100 million in stimulus funds from supporting commercial crew efforts to Constellation.

Dwight Fettig joins the firm of his friends Lendell Porterfield and Andrew Lowenthal.

He practically answered the phone proclaiming: "No, I'm not running for governor." Blunt, no nonsense, to the point: the words of Montgomery Presiding Circuit Court Judge Charles Price.

A hate crimes bill that includes protections for gays and lesbians awaits a vote as the U.S. Senate returns to work today.

Nissan Motor Manufacturing USA has applied for, and received, a $1.6 billion 'conditional loan' from the taxpayers to build electric cars without even a small negative whimper from our key U.S. senator watchdog, Bob Corker of Chattanooga.

For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international space station.

Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galpagos Islands.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that criminal defendants are entitled to cross-examine lab workers who conduct the forensic tests that are used in their trials.

Here are a few jokes about Alabama's Democrat-turned-Republican Senator, Richard Shelby.

NASA is turning to private space companies to plug a worrisome five-year gap in its ability to boost astronauts into orbit and return them safely to Earth.

Color and taste may help peach growers enjoy profitable seasons, but size is what apparently counts when judges pick the best of the crop -- at least, that's what brothers Mike and Seth Knight believe.

Times Staff Writer brian.lawson@htimes.com 1,000 in state sign up for federal work eligibility program More than 1,000 Alabama employers have signed up for the federal government's free E-Verify program, which is aimed at providing electronic verification of a new hire's eligibility to work in the U.S. The U.S. House voted Wednesday to increase ...

As Alabamians grapple with the impact of a wrenching economic downturn, one group seems better positioned than most to weather the crisis: members of the state's congressional delegation.

June 22 - More money is going toward a new maritime museum in Mobile. U.S. Senator Richard Shelby announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will award $499,500 to the new museum called GulfQuest, to be located near the cruise terminal downtown.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., left, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2009, during his opening statement.

Column: In praise of DMV-like health care June 20, 2009 Not content to save the world's economy, salvage the entire auto industry, rein in greed and corruption on Wall Street and rid the globe of household pests , President Barack Obama now is tackling health care reform.

Lawmakers picked apart virtually every element of the Obama administration's regulatory reform plan during a hearing Thursday, but there was one question that dominated: Would it really prevent another financial crisis? "If we have institutions that are 'too big to fail,' have we not failed already, since they create a systemic risk?" asked Sen.

The state of Alabama, as is becoming its custom, dazzled at the Paris Air Show this year.

Democratic leaders have committed to enacting by the end of the year the biggest regulatory revision to the U.S. financial system since the 1930s - an undertaking so ambitious it has some lawmakers worried about missteps.