Sen Richard Shelby

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Limbaugh: GM and Obama Must Fail

Steve Parker | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

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A pair of right-wing radio hosts says there's only one choice for conservatives angry about government involvement in the auto industry: Boycott GM.

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Sen. Richard Shelby: Keep Stress Test Results Secret

The Hill | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the top ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, thinks the government should keep the results of bank "stres...

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Sen Shelby Holds Pentagon Nomination Over Tanker Controversy

The Hill | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

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Controversy over a $35 billion Air Force midair refueling tanker contract is spilling into the confirmation of the Pentagon's next acquisition chief. ...

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GOP Sen. Shelby: Geithner "Wasted" Senate's Time

CBS | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

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Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, on Wednesday lambasted Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner'...

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Toyota Republicans Should Cut Their Own Pay

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business

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Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.

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What About The Government "Bailout" Of Foreign Automakers?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

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The domestic automakers are struggling under the same burden against their foreign competitors with the subsidies they receive as local businesses do against Wal-Mart.

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Congress Bails out Those Who Shower Before Work, but not Those who Shower After Work

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

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Detroit is a place where workers are unionized; Wall Street is not. And right-wing Republicans and conservative pundits have made it clear they want the union workers to suffer.

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